From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merging emacs-23 into trunk Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:55:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <0ybp5wzz95.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <834obofqyk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289505457 7360 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2010 19:57:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:57:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 11 20:57:32 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGdGs-000820-CN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:57:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51496 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGdGQ-000578-Hu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:56:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52640 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGdGJ-0002ym-9P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:56:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGdFQ-0006iW-TZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:55:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:42540) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGdFQ-0006iS-S0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:55:52 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54269) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGdFO-0005Mu-EL; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:55:50 -0500 X-Spook: Dick Cheney Serbian high security cybercash Maple Elvis X-Ran: &BmeWzU$&Nz`;6H=_&0}>VT/n[e (Kenichi Handa's message of "Thu\, 11 Nov 2010 14\:09\:15 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:132549 Archived-At: Kenichi Handa wrote: > We can include configure in tarball. For those who get the source > from bzr, asking them to install autoconf is, I think, no big deal. Absolutely. I think it is entirely reasonable to say "building Emacs from bzr on a POSIX platform requires autoconf". As a random data point, GNU make apparently did this years ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2004-02/msg00040.html