From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Masterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INSTALL-CVS Date: 04 Jun 2003 16:01:36 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <16086.31800.692970.193443@nick.uklinux.net> <16090.26460.514633.853505@nick.uklinux.net> <200306041806.h54I6L0e026749@rum.cs.yale.edu> <16094.23674.647000.848778@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <200306042100.h54L01gs027255@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054771719 22314 80.91.224.249 (5 Jun 2003 00:08:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 00:08:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 05 02:08:29 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 19NiIv-0005mp-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 02:08:29 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19Niaj-0001K9-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 02:26:53 +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 19Ni2s-0001m8-3y for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:51:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Nhx7-0000Qp-As for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:45:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NhYb-0001fX-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:20:39 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NhGf-0005io-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:02:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NhEI-0001ay-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 00:59:38 +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 19NhDv-0001Yk-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 00:59:15 +0200 Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14724 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14724 >>>>> Stefan Monnier writes: >> When you're familiar with the environment (as you are with Emacs), you >> can get away without cleaning your environment first. However, the >> safe approach is to only 'configure' in a clean environment. > It seems the only time that I need to re-run a configure script > is when I'm hacking on the corresponding program. Otherwise, > I just untar, configure, make install, and throw away. Thus my original suggestion to 'touch' the Info files at the end of configure (iff they exist) is not so counter-productive after all. -- David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc. Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA