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Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:53:31 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> The benefit is that a deoendency on the VCS goes away.
>>
>> I don't see that should be considered as a benefit.
>
> Well, the whole point of the GPL and the delivered source tar balls is
> to give the user the ability to make his own changes.  If the Makefile
> dependencies don't work when making changes to the source from a
> tarball, it does not look much like a source tarball.

I don't think you can put that much into it.  You can alway run `make -C
lisp autoloads' manually to update loaddefs.el.

Andreas.

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