Re: Why does the emacs executable depend on SOME_MACHINE_LISP?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> I'm curious about the reason for this change:

> 2008-06-20  Stefan Monnier  <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca>

>   * Makefile.in (emacs${EXEEXT}): Depend on the machine-specific files.

> which amounts to adding ${SOME_MACHINE_LISP} to the dependencies of
> emacs${EXEEXT}. AFAICS, it should just depend directly on $lisp and
> DOC. The latter depends on SOME_MACHINE_LISP, so emacs depends on it
> indirectly, but I don't see why you added the direct dependence.

I can't remember what was the reason, but I suspect that

   date: 2008-07-03 23:39:37 -0400;  author: monnier;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -1;  commitid: kLQlf04BwIcb9r9t;
   (${etc}DOC): Depend on ${lisp} rather than ${shortlisp}.

is a good explanation: when I applied that patch DOC did not depend on
${lisp}.  So you're probably right that we can now undo this change to
emacs${EXEEXT}.

I'm curious, tho: why do you ask?


        Stefan