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bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:07:09 +0300 |
> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:50:50 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, 14603@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> > Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, 14603@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:15:00 -0400
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > >> No arguments, just ./configure
> > >
> > > That will never work.
> >
> > Can you make it detect someone has done that and throw an error?
>
> I don't know what to detect. Looking at $0 is not going to fit the
> bill, because it is quite alright to set CONFIG_SITE manually before
> invoking ./configure. You will see that the top-level Makefile.in
> does precisely that, when it finds it needs to re-run configure.
> Moreover, someone might even copy mingw-cfg.site to
> $prefix/share/config.site, and I don't think they deserve to be
> punished by throwing an error. So testing that "$CONFIG_SITE" is
> non-empty is also sub-optimal if not outright wrong.
I could perhaps output a warning if "$CONFIG_SITE" is found empty, but
will people pay attention? After all, this warning:
configure: WARNING: libacl development library was not found or not usable.
configure: WARNING: emacs will be built without ACL support.
didn't have any effect on Dmitry.
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, (continued)
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Glenn Morris, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Jan Djärv, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Glenn Morris, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/14
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Glenn Morris, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/06/13
- bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/06/13