Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> What process?  This is just a message, it changes nothing in the
> process.

The process that includes people reading and understanding and acting on 
messages. Complicating the messages complicates the process.

> > Better would be to have plain './autogen.sh' default './autogen.sh all'
> > instead of to './autogen.sh autoconf'
>
> AFAIR, last time you tried this, some people here objected to forcing
> them install Git hooks.

They would not be forced under my most recent proposal. They could run 
'./autogen.sh autoconf' rather than plain './autogen.sh'. All that would be 
changed would be a minor simplification in the default.

Had you typed './autogen.sh all' instead of './autogen.sh' you wouldn't have 
needed to read and understand and act on its final diagnostic, and this would 
have saved a bit of time. The idea is to make 'all' the default for 
./autogen.sh, as a timesaver for the typical process.