Re: Remember 2.0 released

[Michael Olson]

Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> writes:

> This is not a clean way of doing things. If Emacs fails here, it is a
> real error (i.e. there will be no .elc file), so make should _not_
> ignore it, but abort at this point.
>
> Gentoo includes a patch for the Makefile not to ignore errors
> (already since Remember version 1.9):
> <http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/app-emacs/remember/files/remember-1.9-make-elc.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup>
> Otherwise we could never be sure that the automatic build process has
> installed all desired files.
>
> But anyway, thank you for the great program and keep up the good
> work. :-)

Actually, I think this is a bad idea.  If Gentoo is requiring that the
make command succeed without errors, then the user will have to have
every optional dependency (such as the deprecated emacs-wiki.el)
installed before they can successfully build remember.  If Gentoo is
really hot and bothered about seeing errors in the Makefile, it's better
just to remove the "lisp" target from "all".

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