Re: Checkout of Emacs CVS through firewall

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 23:19:17 +0900, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote:

> I think that change was a mistake. The intention of that line seems
> to me to be to make a backup of the makefile before overwriting it,
> in case the user uses a dual-boot or networked drive for the source
> tree and wants to recover the unix makefile without reconfiguring
> after building the Windows version.

Perhaps it was failing when thre's no lisp/Makefile, and that's why Eli
changed it.  Anyway, it's been like that for almost three years and half,
so perhaps there aren't developers doing that kind of dual-boot or
shared working copy development.  I'd suggest just removing the line and
waiting.  If someone barks, we can fix it later.

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