GNU bug report logs - #5191
replace ELCFILES in lisp/Makefile.in

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Harald Maier <Harald <at> Maierh.de>

Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:35:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 24.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #60 received at 5191 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>, 5191 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, Harald <at> Maierh.de, 5191 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5191: 23.1.90;
	Make target compile-main fails under GNU/Linux Kernel 2.6.16
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:36:01 -0500

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:21:23 -0500
> Cc: Harald Maier <Harald <at> Maierh.de>, 5191 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
> 	5191 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> 
> > + -include $(lisp)/.elcfiles
> 
> This is sadly not portable.
> We could indeed put the list of elcfiles in a file, and then use
> 
>   xargs make <.elcfiles

If we eventually decide to go this way, please don't use a file name
that begins with a dot: apart of being disallowed on DOS filesystems,
such a file is hidden from `ls' and other commands, which in this case
does not seem to be justified, since this is a file generated by the
build.
This bug report was last modified 14 years and 135 days ago.

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