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Re: configure re-run each time version.el changes
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: configure re-run each time version.el changes |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:45:47 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:57:31 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> CC: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
>
> On 11/13/2014 10:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Why is config.status dependent on lisp/version.el?
>
> Andreas Schwab added that dependency in 2007 to fix a problem back when
> Emacs was managed under CVS and did not assume GNU Make. Please see
> this thread:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01375.html
Thanks.
> I haven't looked at it carefully, but I wouldn't be surprised if the
> dependency (or something like it) is still needed. I'll CC: Andreas to
> give him a heads-up.
AFAIR, at the time, we updated the Emacs version by grepping
version.el, and perhaps that was the reason for the dependency. But
nowadays we do that in configure.ac, so I wonder if the version.el
dependency is still needed.