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Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:57:49 +0200 |
> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:08:59 -0500
> From: "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> ## VCSWITNESS points to the file that holds info about the current checkout.
> ## We use it as a heuristic to decide when to rebuild loaddefs.el.
> ## If empty it is ignored; the parent makefile can set it to some other value.
>
> It would make my life simpler if this mechanism were removed; that's one of
> only
> two dependencies of Cazaar in the entire build (the other one is in
> lisp/version.el). And the fact that the bug went undetected suggests that
> the mechanism wasn't very useful.
>
> Anyone want to argue for keeping this? Support removing it? Suggest
> something else?
We need something to refresh loaddefs.el from time to time. If you
have alternative suggestions, please describe them.
- Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/11
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Paul Eggert, 2014/01/11
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/12
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/12
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/12
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/12
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, David Kastrup, 2014/01/12
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Andreas Schwab, 2014/01/12
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, David Kastrup, 2014/01/12
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system,
Eli Zaretskii <=
Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/12
Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/12
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Paul Eggert, 2014/01/12
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/12
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/12
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Paul Eggert, 2014/01/12
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/12
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Paul Eggert, 2014/01/12
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/12
- Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system, Paul Eggert, 2014/01/13