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Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken.
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken. |
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Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:44:33 -0700 |
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On 4/11/19 12:55 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Yes, it has no autoconf, but
> that's been replaced with the configure step from waf, which has exactly
> one person you can ask if something doesn't work the way you think it
> should.
Yes, I considered waf too (coincidentally I was just talking to a
student today about waf for one of his projects!). However, I don't
think waf would be as good a match for Emacs, as it brings in more
dependencies (Python, bzip2) and it's not yet clear that waf will be a
stable-enough build tool for Emacs in the long run.
In contrast, if we simply use GNU Make we are reducing dependencies (by
removing dependencies on autoconf/automake/m4) and we know GNU Make will
be there in the long haul.
- Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken., (continued)
- Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken., Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/23
- Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken., Paul Eggert, 2019/04/23
- Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken., Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/23
- Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken., Stefan Monnier, 2019/04/23
- Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken., Richard Stallman, 2019/04/23
- Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken., Richard Stallman, 2019/04/14
- Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken., Paul Eggert, 2019/04/15
- Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken., Achim Gratz, 2019/04/11
- Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken., Daniel Colascione, 2019/04/11
- Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken., Paul Eggert, 2019/04/11
- Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken.,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken., Daniele Nicolodi, 2019/04/12
- Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken., Achim Gratz, 2019/04/13