From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:33:35 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buovdiskgsw.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8363asoov2.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:25:53 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> P.S. I generally find any Make or shell/Sed trickery misplaced in
> Emacs Makefiles, since we have the full power of Emacs at our
> fingertips. Portability is one obvious advantage, but more
> importantly, it sounds right, in the context of building Emacs, to use
> Emacs itself wherever we can. Otherwise, we appear as not believing
> in the tool we are developing. Don't you agree?
Well, of course that's only true if a built emacs is available at the
point of invocation. Also, the elisp code to do a given text munging
job is often quite a bit longer, because sed is designed specifically to
do certain tasks very concisely.
-Miles
--
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. -- Steven Wright
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[not found] <E1Mv3iq-0005oI-5L@monty-python.gnu.org>
2009-10-06 7:44 ` Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-06 9:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-06 9:33 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-10-06 9:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-06 10:14 ` Miles Bader
2009-10-06 13:12 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-06 13:45 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-06 16:20 ` Glenn Morris
2009-10-06 16:50 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-06 15:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-06 16:16 ` Glenn Morris
2009-10-06 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-07 3:00 ` Glenn Morris
2009-10-07 7:23 ` Glenn Morris
2009-10-07 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-07 10:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-07 16:16 ` Glenn Morris
2009-10-08 23:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-10-08 23:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-08 23:34 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-10-09 0:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-09 0:04 ` Glenn Morris
2009-10-09 0:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-09 11:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-10-10 0:50 ` ignoring autoloads in preloaded files on Windows [was Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files] Glenn Morris
2009-10-10 2:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-10 3:34 ` ignoring autoloads in preloaded files on Windows Glenn Morris
2009-10-10 3:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-10 4:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-10 4:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-10 5:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-10 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-13 19:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-15 6:14 ` Glenn Morris
2009-10-10 7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-10 11:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-10 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-10 21:17 ` Glenn Morris
2009-10-11 2:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-11 2:36 ` Glenn Morris
2009-10-11 2:44 ` Glenn Morris
2009-10-11 3:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-11 14:04 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-07 9:57 ` Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-07 9:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
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