From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: more reliable `make' Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:37:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20090907092823.GA3210@muc.de> <83ws4a3b49.fsf@gnu.org> <0C7A6FC6-085D-4B7F-9DC0-FF0493876153@raeburn.org> <15tyzeinlq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83skey34bz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252589877 1833 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2009 13:37:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:37:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 10 15:37:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MljqD-0001k1-Nu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:37:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43433 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MljqC-0006vZ-J1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:37:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mljpv-0006vE-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mljpp-0006uO-DS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:37:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48285 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mljpo-0006uB-M6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:37:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [206.248.154.183] (port=21302 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mljpo-0002TG-CD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:37:12 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiIFABieqEpFpZBe/2dsb2JhbACBU9xOhBgFh20 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,364,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="45501905" Original-Received: from 69-165-144-94.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.144.94]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 10 Sep 2009 09:35:41 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C60B77F5B; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:37:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:28:16 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:115174 Archived-At: >>> I'll wait to hear the details of Stefans's implementation, but I >>> imagine it was preferring the .el files only if newer. >> And only during byte-compilation, yes. > So if I understand correctly, while not as correct/fast as generating > all the dependency info, it's a lot simpler to implement, and should > render issues like this a thing of the past? It won't make them a thing of the past. It just makes them a bit less frequent. Stefan