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: Why and not "config.h" ? Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:26:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87wrsgs5t3.fsf@telefonica.net> <87y6cwz6bq.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280413593 10819 80.91.229.12 (29 Jul 2010 14:26:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:26:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 29 16:26:31 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeU46-0001t4-Mk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:26:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41519 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeU45-0006Xo-Rh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:26:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53322 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeU3x-0006X7-KZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:26:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeU3u-00052a-MU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:26:20 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm4.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.4]:24887) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeU3u-000520-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:26:18 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost6.adm.correo ([10.20.102.127]) by IMPaqm4.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id npZG1e0072kvMAa3QqSG1K; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:26:16 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([83.61.51.16]) by IMPmailhost6.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id nqSF1e00N0LyJBX1mqSGgn; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:26:16 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9E81666140; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:26:15 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87y6cwz6bq.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:30:17 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.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:127965 Archived-At: > I think this was discussed recently, and I seem to recall that the > reason given was that "config.h" doesn't work if the user tries to build > with an out-of-tree object directory _after_ having previously built in > the source tree (without an intervening "make distclean" in the source > dir). Actually, I'd be happy to have a recipe to reproduce the problem. This way we can fix it in the Makefile, so that the choice between the two becomes "irrelevant", rather than being based on "avoid a poorly understood problem in some rare corner case". Stefan