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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: src/Makefile unhelpful
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:12:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1oYJlK-0004Gv-Sy@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83edwia2m8.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 11 Sep 2022 08:42:23 +0300)

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  > These short forms use Make macros defined by Automake, so it isn't
  > something specific to Emacs.  The only Emacs-specific aspects are the
  > commands that aren't seen in other builds, like byte-compilation --
  > for those we invented our own short names.  But C/C++ compilation,
  > linking, production of auto-generated files, etc. -- all this is used
  > by many other GNU projects.

I don't build programs myself other than Emacs, so I have not seen
this.  Perhaps the ideal response would be a change in Automake to
inform users how to see what these commands really do.

Alas, I doubt we have anyone to do that.

  >   So, regardless of whether we implement our own
  > solution for that, I think you should raise that on the autotools
  > forum.

I would like to, even though I fear there is a maintenance crisis there.
What exactly is "the autotools forum"?

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-14  4:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-07  2:19 src/Makefile unhelpful Richard Stallman
2022-09-07  2:38 ` Po Lu
2022-09-07  2:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-08  3:00   ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-08  4:51     ` Sam James
2022-09-11  3:38       ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-11  5:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-11  9:57           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-11 11:59             ` Po Lu
2022-09-11 12:07               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-11 12:16                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-13  4:07               ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-13 16:11                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-14 20:02                   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-09-14 20:05                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-14 20:47                       ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15  7:14                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-15  7:28                           ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15  7:32                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15  7:41                               ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15  9:07                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15 14:33                             ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-09-15 16:04                               ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-17 10:46                             ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-17 11:20                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-09-17 16:41                                 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2022-09-17 22:59                                   ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-17 22:58                                 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-18 10:37                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-18 11:38                                 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-18 11:53                                   ` Andreas Schwab
2022-09-18 12:05                                     ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-18 13:48                                       ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-18 16:40                                     ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-18 16:59                                       ` Andreas Schwab
2022-09-18 21:50                                         ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-19 17:20                                           ` chad
2022-09-19 17:25                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-19 20:42                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-18 21:39                                 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15 13:13                           ` Ken Brown
2022-09-15 14:01                             ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-11 15:16           ` Werner LEMBERG
2022-09-12  4:35             ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-08  6:14     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-08  7:29       ` Andreas Schwab
2022-09-08 13:18       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-11  3:38       ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-11  5:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-14  4:12           ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-09-14 11:33             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-07  3:11 ` Sam James

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