Hello Jim, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: >> I wanted to make a new idutils release, but was blocked because >> its "make distcheck" would fail. That was because it distributes >> and builds from an elisp file, and automake's elisp-compilation >> rule uses a function that was marked obsolete back in 2009. >> Upstream Emacs finally removed support for that function in May, >> so anyone using emacs built since then will see the same failure >> I saw. It also strikes whenever building from a read-only source >> directory. >> >> This change switches the build command to use the "new" way. >> >> I started discussion on emacs-devel last night: >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-11/msg00551.html >> >> >> From ecad5844100d5193ecd58f66f31f6bbf0ef04e23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@fb.com> >> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:07:29 -0800 >> Subject: [PATCH] port elisp-compilation support to emacs-23.1 and newer >> >> In May of 2017, support for using the long-deprecated >> byte-compile-dest-file function was removed, and that removal broke >> automake's elisp-compiling rule for any .el file not in the current >> directory. In emacs-23.1 (July 2009) byte-compile-dest-file-function >> became the recommended way to adjust the byte-compiler's destination. >> * lib/am/lisp.am (.el.elc): Use byte-compile-dest-file-function, >> rather than byte-compile-dest-file. >> * t/lisp-readonly-srcdir.sh: New file, to test for the above. >> * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): Add it. > > Pushed to the micro branch: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?h=micro&id=9182df7e4810a411147d523de8cd141e749c5e39 With the "recent" change in Automake branch naming scheme, 'master' seems a better fit for this: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2017-09/msg00015.html Thanks. -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
