From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] make-dist fixes and clean-ups Date: 02 May 2005 18:33:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87vf64bk4u.fsf@marant.org> <87d5sbcfqi.fsf@xs4all.nl> <87y8az2l7i.fsf@marant.org> <87is2227p7.fsf@marant.org> <87r7gqzoln.fsf@marant.org> <1115019145.4275d7893fe0b@imp1-q.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115093197 4888 80.91.229.2 (3 May 2005 04:06:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 04:06:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 03 06:06:33 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DSofw-0003Fc-Qp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 06:06:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DSomx-0003Jb-RQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 00:13:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DSjpy-0000sN-Mn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 18:56:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DSjoq-0000P7-Q0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 18:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DSjng-0007jX-Dx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 18:54:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.245.121.136] (helo=mail.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DSjYC-0003Dp-Dx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 18:38:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DSjTi-0004Qw-Vt; Mon, 02 May 2005 18:33:27 -0400 Original-To: jerome.marant@free.fr In-Reply-To: <1115019145.4275d7893fe0b@imp1-q.free.fr> Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36612 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36612 J=E9r=F4me Marant writes: > The only information you should know about with makefiles are > targets and variables. that's one way to look at it. sometimes a project's methodology cannot be described by only these things. emacs is particularly hairy when it comes to makefile construction, use and maintenance. a very important part is the documentation (comments in the file itself, separate notes in INSTALL.CVS, comments and code for makefile-specific munging in the configure script, etc). it's a good idea to look at all these things, not only the targets and variables. if you restrict yourself thusly you miss a lot of interesting information. thi