Re: Checkout of Emacs CVS through firewall

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 14:55:00 +0200
> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
> 
> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 00:44:46 -0400, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Offhand it sounds like something that should be fixed in nt/configure.bat.
> 
> From revision 1.1, nt/configure.bat has had:
> 
>    if not exist ..\lisp\Makefile.unix rename ..\lisp\Makefile Makefile.unix
> 
> In 1.5, Eli changed it to
> 
>    if not exist ..\lisp\Makefile.unix rename ..\lisp\Makefile.in Makefile.unix
> 
> Curiously, the log says: "Don't copy lisp/Makefile, it doesn't exist;
> copy lisp/Makefile.in instead."
> 
> I'm going to ask Eli what's the purpose of this line and whether it cold
> be changed to really copy, instead of moving.

What is the problem with that line, anyway?  (I didn't follow this
thread closely enough, so if it was already described, please point me
at the appropriate message.)