From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What should I do when building Emacs again with different configure options? Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:53:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <9nvc3w21uf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374965613 3050 80.91.229.3 (27 Jul 2013 22:53:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 22:53:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Xue Fuqiao Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 28 00:53:34 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V3DMi-0000eh-3j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:53:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43982 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V3DMh-00081n-Qf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:53:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33370) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V3DMP-00080N-AA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:53:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V3DMF-0005Qp-Le for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:53:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:60299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V3DMF-0005Qd-CY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:53:03 -0400 Original-Received: from sumac.fritz.box ([88.153.241.211]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb102) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0LopeB-1USmkH02ZP-00grzi for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:53:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:pTbcdOuMNmz/x5CYhlgW7djiBLOeUrjXzOdPIIdqOkpA/Cw7K3D mUVNJI8lgCJ4Jf+fXYMsQOZdWfk5M9Hvw6Gf4dHAZ3ihrwXzXyKAj1cpvDWUP9q/Z6mPozA EarS+gQggxddpcjlE6+LvZwyjCi9e50tCE6pF3a7dOhe6YBOaKwFA832r9d2TFTg8mkfnsA /NxWLelJvwuhCxltn6baQ== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92480 Archived-At: Am 28.07.2013 um 00:30 schrieb Xue Fuqiao: > So could we remove the "./configure"? No! Without invoking configure at least once after the 'make distclean' = or out-packing the sources no Makefile is there and so GNU Emacs cannot = be built. The configure run creates the Makefiles in the top level = directory and in sub-directories with some kind of sources that need to = be compiled to something more useful =96 these are for example the TEXI = or LISP files, which become INFO or ELC files =96 and the 'make = distclean' removes these Makefiles. It might be useful to document that = configure can be invoked with arguments to prepare an optimised build. = And that the build/install options can be retrieved by invoking = "./configure --help"? Or, if you want to remove something from the INSTALL file, then I'd = recommend * intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz=20 These are pretty old bitmapped fonts. They cannot be used with GNU = Emacs' font shaping capabilities. The GNU Freefonts (FreeSerif, = FreeSans, FreeMono) exist and offer support for many scripts and = languages. -- Greetings Pete Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. - Groucho Marx