Re: Checkout of Emacs CVS through firewall

[Jason Rumney]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

> 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 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.