From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Annoyingly cautious make rules Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:48:54 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322689747 12799 80.91.229.12 (30 Nov 2011 21:49:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:49:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 30 22:49:02 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RVs1V-0003Ov-K1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:49:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57716 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RVs1V-0004dB-4l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:49:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55263) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RVs1S-0004cS-DU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:48:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RVs1Q-0000uR-TG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:48:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:34478) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RVs1Q-0000uN-Mq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:48:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RVs1O-0005dQ-96; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:48:54 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146372 Archived-At: I ran config.status, hoping to avoid the 10 minutes it takes to run configure on my machine, since I did that yesterday. But config.status ran configure. This is correct in some rigid theoretical sense, but it is nasty to disregard what the user asks for. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/