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Re: Change to bzr build instructions


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Change to bzr build instructions
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:42:54 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> Mostly the problem is that after running copy_autogen, it still tried
>> to run autoheader. I had to "touch src/stamp-h.in".
> I added that, basically.

Good, thanks.

>> So we should either be more careful about such dependencies in
>> copy_autogen, or maybe try and get copy_autogen to set
>> "enable-maintainer-mode=off".
> I suppose it could do something like that, but I don't know if it is a
> good idea. I really don't recommend the use of the copy_autogen script
> at all, except very much as a last resort, so I wouldn't want to see it
> get too fancy.

I don't think we want to get too fancy, indeed.  The `touch' trick seems
sufficient for now.

>> Another (minor) problem is that it's a lot more convenient to run
>> ./autogen/copy than to cd into autogen to run ./copy and then cd back
>> out of it.
> OK, now either works.

Great, thanks,


        Stefan



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