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bug#8342: 24.0.50; Emacs HEAD cannot build with OS X standard autoconf
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Steve Purcell |
Subject: |
bug#8342: 24.0.50; Emacs HEAD cannot build with OS X standard autoconf |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:06:48 +0000 |
On 25 Mar 2011, at 17:08, Glenn Morris wrote:
>
> If installing autoconf is too hard, you can use
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> ./autogen/copy_autogen
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> as a workaround
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> (as advised by the top-level autogen.sh script, if you run it)
>
Hi Glenn,
That works, and I apologise for having failed to notice it.
It's not that installing autogen is too hard, of course -- I have an autogen,
just not the very latest version, and that never mattered before since
'configure' was all I needed.
It seems like if there's an accepted case for checking in a version of the
autogen'd files, then why not spare the users by sticking with the previous
simpler scheme, and use the ./autogen cronjob to update the primary files
directly?
I imagine the Homebrew build recipe will end up just using copy_autogen if the
new scheme remains in place, and a bunch of OS X users will also get used to
running ./autogen/copy_autogen every time they build.
I should stress that I'm far from a hard-core Emacs developer, and I don't
fully understand the big picture of making Emacs work *everywhere*, but I hope
that this at least qualifies my bug report as the feedback of an informed (and
grateful) user on one reasonably popular platform.
Cheers,
-Steve
bug#8342: 24.0.50; Emacs HEAD cannot build with OS X standard autoconf, Andreas Schwab, 2011/03/25
bug#8342: 24.0.50; Emacs HEAD cannot build with OS X standard autoconf, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/25