On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> wrote: > 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.
Hi Mathieu, Happy to adjust. Would you prefer that I merge micro into master, then... or something else? Then delete micro? When I noticed that I'd created that branch (after reading the description in HACKING), I figured I'd missed something.
