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Re: adding warning to obsolete unicode branch


From: Dan Nicolaescu
Subject: Re: adding warning to obsolete unicode branch
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:35:43 -0800

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

  > As a large number of people used the emacs-unicode-2 branch
  > out of CVS, I think it might be a good idea to add a warning
  > to the configure script and Makefiles in the branch, so that
  > if they update from that branch and build emacs, they'll get
  > a big fat message telling them they should probably use the
  > trunk instead.
  > 
  > E.g.
  > 
  > ********************************************************************
  > **                                                                **
  > **  The Emacs "emacs-unicode-2" branch has been merged into       **
  > **  the CVS trunk, and is now obsolete.  You should probably      **
  > **  use the CVS trunk instead.                                    **
  > **                                                                **
  > **  To switch a CVS checkout to the trunk, use the command:       **
  > **                                                                **
  > **     cvs update -A                                              **
  > **                                                                **
  > ********************************************************************
  > 
  > The configure script is easy, though I'm not exactly sure
  > which make targets such a thing should be added to...
  > 
  > Any opinions?

How about just make configure exit after printing the message above,
that way there's no need worry about the makefiles.




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