From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione@gmail.com>
Cc: david.reitter@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New build process?
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:58:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1QluJt-0008SP-RQ@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E2F2084.7070001@gmail.com> (message from Daniel Colascione on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:16:04 -0700)
Sure, but having to run autogen.sh on a project that's just been checked out of
version control is also very common in the free software world, and our actual
source tarballs do contain pre-built autoconf scripts. The problem with a
self-replacing configure script is that, as you mentioned, it'd be hard to tell
bzr to version the placeholder script, but ignore the generated one; solving
this problem by using a nonstandard name for the generated `configure' script
would be surprising. I think our current approach is fine.
We could call the current configuration script `configure-internal'.
Then have a small `configure' script that checks whether the
`configure-internal' file exists and is up to date, and if not,
generates it. Then it would run `configure-internal'.
This would DTRT in all cases, wouldn't it?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-27 2:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-26 18:42 New build process? Alan Mackenzie
2011-07-26 18:47 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-26 20:00 ` David Reitter
2011-07-26 20:16 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-27 2:58 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2011-07-27 3:40 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 5:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-27 7:58 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 8:25 ` Peter Münster
2011-07-27 8:48 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 9:43 ` Peter Münster
2011-07-27 8:51 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-27 10:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-27 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-27 13:11 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 13:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-27 13:56 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-28 12:37 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-07-28 12:46 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-29 12:36 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-07-27 14:58 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 16:14 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-27 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-27 20:27 ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-28 10:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-28 10:15 ` bug#9106: " Paul Eggert
2011-07-28 16:45 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-27 7:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27 8:02 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 8:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27 8:13 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 8:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27 8:31 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 8:54 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-27 9:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27 9:15 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-27 9:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-26 20:24 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-26 22:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-07-27 12:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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