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Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:33:35 +0900 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> P.S. I generally find any Make or shell/Sed trickery misplaced in
> Emacs Makefiles, since we have the full power of Emacs at our
> fingertips. Portability is one obvious advantage, but more
> importantly, it sounds right, in the context of building Emacs, to use
> Emacs itself wherever we can. Otherwise, we appear as not believing
> in the tool we are developing. Don't you agree?
Well, of course that's only true if a built emacs is available at the
point of invocation. Also, the elisp code to do a given text munging
job is often quite a bit longer, because sed is designed specifically to
do certain tasks very concisely.
-Miles
--
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- Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/10/06
- Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/10/06
- Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/10/06
- Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files, Miles Bader, 2009/10/06
- Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/10/06
- Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/10/06
- Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files, Glenn Morris, 2009/10/06
- Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/10/06
Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files, Stefan Monnier, 2009/10/06
Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files, Glenn Morris, 2009/10/06