From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: More fun with vcswitness Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:37:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20140112200736.C29B33811D4@snark.thyrsus.com> <87zjn1ar8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83k3e47vlq.fsf@gnu.org> <83ha987d60.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbxo2nsb.fsf@igel.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389634670 19392 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2014 17:37:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:37:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , jan.h.d@swipnet.se, Andreas Schwab , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 13 18:37:57 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W2lSW-0004rC-8N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:37:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44065 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2lSV-0000Kk-UH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:37:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49125) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2lSS-0000KF-QV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:37:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2lSS-0005a1-1B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:37:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35745) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2lSR-0005Zx-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:37:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2lSN-0006j8-R5; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:37:47 -0500 X-Spook: JSOFC3IP cryptanalysis sweep Bin Laden Majic IMF NORAD X-Ran: hLdHV=`ry`,v.EpU|o=PCr0M=N*.FK|F#\N4{tl7QR,r4g@+Cbtb| X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:30:14 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168304 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > Right, I was thinking of $(srcdir) as the root of the checkout: > ../$(srcdir)/.bzr wouldn't make sense for an absolute (srcdir), > but $(srcdir)/../.bzr makes even less sense if $(srcdir) as the root of > the checkout. srcdir is not the root of the checkout. top_srcdir is. srcdir is "directory containing the sources associated with the Makefile that expands it". In many cases it will be "." everywhere: in Makefile, src/Makefile, etc. In another case it might be ../emacs in Makefile, ../../emacs/src in src/Makefile, etc. $(top_srcdir)/.bzr is equivalent to what you have now, but AFAICS there's no _need_ to change it, except maybe clarity.