From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Annoyingly cautious make rules Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:34:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: <83ehwnc97k.fsf@gnu.org> <4ED917E2.7020807@cs.ucla.edu> <4ED94331.7030702@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322872471 12707 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2011 00:34:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 00:34:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , rms@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 03 01:34:27 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RWdYf-0006nZ-Ia for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:34:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36396 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWdYf-0002vo-5f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:34:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59429) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWdYc-0002vf-VA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:34:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWdYb-0004FA-RF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:34:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:37829) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWdYZ-0004EP-D9; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:34:19 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 980D6188B589; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 01:34:16 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: Jf52dVQbHa2U/Cderrslbwx5Iqiurv7DnFAgx66G9yo= Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-97-43.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.97.43]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 518041C000FE; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 01:34:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 0AF7CCA29C; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 01:34:15 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: I was in EXCRUCIATING PAIN until I started reading JACK AND JILL Magazine!! In-Reply-To: <4ED94331.7030702@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:29:21 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Received-From: 212.18.0.10 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:146444 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > Sorry, I don't follow. The 2011-03-20 change put a copy of 'configure' > into autogen/configure, and autogen/copy_autogen creates an up-to-date > copy of 'configure' from 'autogen/configure'. So I don't see why > the problematic dependencies are needed after autogen/copy_autogen is run. It's true > that 'configure' is not under revision control, but the problematic dependencies > aren't needed to keep it 'configure' up to date if one uses copy_autogen. That wouldn't help for this case since you must rerun configure anyway when it changes, not matter how you update it. This has nothing to do with maintainer mode. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."