Re: Merging emacs-23 into trunk

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Eli Zaretskii writes:

 > If committing configure alone is all we need to avoid the problem, we
 > could decide to do that, philosophical and atom-splitting issues
 > notwithstanding.

No, I'm saying that the design of bzr doesn't permit that.

 > Alternatively, "bzr revert configure" before committing the merges
 > should also do.

As long as the Makefile knows to update configure, you're OK until
somebody with a different version of autoconf reports a bug.  Or
somebody with *no* autoconf decides to build, and gets stopped before
they get started even though they've got a perfectly good configure.