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Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken.


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken.
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 20:08:41 +0300

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:28:06 -0700
> 
> On 4/22/19 11:25 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Does this assume we could have both Makefile and makefile in the same
> > directory?  That's false on case-insensitive filesystems.
> 
> The 'test -f makefile' prevents 'configure' from overwriting Makefile on
> case-insensitive filesystems. So on these systems one needs a
> GNU-compatible 'make'.

Ah, okay.  Then there's no problem.

> I am still of the opinion that this whole thing is a mistake and
> that we should stick with what Emacs 25 and 26 do, as that's simpler
> and will avoid problems such as the one you mention.

Then perhaps we shouldn't do this mistake.



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