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: require GNU make to build emacs? Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:15:05 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200802242344.m1ONihq5014668@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200802250522.m1P5Mf94012696@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200802260109.m1Q19eE5018561@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203999342 32529 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2008 04:15:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:15:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 26 05:16:08 2008 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 4.50) id 1JTrEc-0002Eh-Aa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:16:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTrE6-0002gP-B6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:15:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTrDj-0002Tw-0b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:15:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTrDh-0002Sj-0w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:15:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTrDg-0002Sc-PC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:15:08 -0500 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JTrDg-0001Dj-IA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:15:08 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-119-247.inter.net.il [84.229.119.247]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id FCG18592 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:15:01 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <200802260109.m1Q19eE5018561@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (message from Dan Nicolaescu on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:09:40 -0800) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:90477 Archived-At: > From: Dan Nicolaescu > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:09:40 -0800 > > > The way to avoid using cpp is to autoconfiscate our configury, so that > > the configure script produces src/Makefile from src/Makefile.in. (Not > > that I think this is such an urgent task, given that the current setup > > works so well and that the rate of new OSes and/or changes in the > > existing OSes is so low lately.) > > Or we could just split the s/* m/* files into C header files and real > makefiles. That'd defeat one of the benefits of autoconfiscation: avoid the need to maintain the gazillion s/*.h and m/*.h files by hand.