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: Re: Annoyingly cautious make rules Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:23:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83ehwnc97k.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322904252 1659 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2011 09:24:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 09:24:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 03 10:24:07 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 1RWlpE-0004mV-Bt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:24:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40733 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWlpD-0003S0-Sn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:24:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50678) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWlpB-0003Rj-1g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:24:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWlp9-0002tO-C4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:24:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:33386) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWlp9-0002tF-Ac for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:23:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWlp7-0004hM-QP; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:23:57 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:14:03 -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:146457 Archived-At: IIUC it's because the expectation is that it's not run very often and that current machines are fast enough to make it bearable, the advantage being that when you "aptitude upgrade" you won't waste your time wondering why configure does not notice that your libjpeg62 doesn't exist any more and how to coerce configure into doing its job I see. Thanks. -- 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/