From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs floating point error during dump? Date: 11 Jul 2003 09:42:24 -0400 Organization: disorganization Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200307081321.h68DLnC3009346@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200307091344.h69DiZXj014067@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1057932004 4140 80.91.224.249 (11 Jul 2003 14:00:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:00:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 11 16:00:00 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19ayQG-0000yN-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:58:52 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19ayc5-0005es-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:11:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19ayQc-00064t-8l for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:59:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19ayN8-0002Gd-7F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:55:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19ayLu-0001ZP-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:54:22 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19ayBZ-0003Uy-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:43:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19ayAU-0007xg-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:42:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19ay9Y-0007rT-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:41:36 +0200 Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15540 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15540 > * In message > * On the subject of "Re: emacs floating point error during dump?" > * Sent on Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:43:53 -0400 > * Honorable Richard Stallman writes: > > The reason I omitted dependencies on lisp.h was that that file changes > quite often, but most changes in it don't require recompiling all of > Emacs. This is The Wrong Thing to do. Correctness first, performance later. The Emacs developers already spent _more_ time handling the issues stemming from this makefile bug (answering questions, trying to debug instead of a simple "make clean && make" &c) than would have been spent rebuilding Emacs as per the "overkill" dependencies. (Just MHO, as always - see `X-Disclaimer' header :-) -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.