From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 14:15:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87lkn1tzav.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4543389E.3090006@gnu.org> <4543CFDF.1060605@gnu.org> <45448DB1.8080800@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162642572 703 80.91.229.2 (4 Nov 2006 12:16:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 12:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 04 13:16:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GgKRE-0003zP-8A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:15:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GgKRD-0004pM-L5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:15:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GgKR1-0004mC-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:15:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GgKQy-0004iO-P4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:15:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GgKQy-0004iL-Mu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:15:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GgKQx-0004ZM-14; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:15:35 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-21-235.inter.net.il [80.230.21.235]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id FCA05194 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 4 Nov 2006 14:15:29 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Jason Rumney In-reply-to: <45448DB1.8080800@gnu.org> (message from Jason Rumney on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:17:05 +0000) 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:61766 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:17:05 +0000 > From: Jason Rumney > Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Do you have some sh.exe on your PATH, or did you use CMD? I think my > > patch would not work with CMD, due to forward slashes in the > > redirection. I think I'd replace that with some cp command. > > > There is no sh.exe in my path, so I think it would have used cmd.exe. > Perhaps mingw32-make converted the path before passing to cmd.exe? It turns out that cmd.exe does grok redirection with forward slashes. But command.com from Windows 9x won't. > But cp would be safer. I committed a change to use cp. > >> But if temacs.exe is not needed to produce the DOC file, why do we > >> depend on it in the first place? > >> > > > > So that, whenever temacs.exe is rebuilt (meaning that some C file has > > changed), DOC is regenerated by "make install". > > > Then wouldn't it be better to build DOC after temacs? Otherwise we lag > behind by one build, since temacs does not get modified until after the > DOC file is generated. I asked why does temacs need to be modified when DOC is changed. Do you know whether there's any need for that, and why?