On Sun, 25 May 2014, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote: > Jani Nikula wrote: >> On Sun, 25 May 2014, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote: >> > Jani Nikula wrote: >> >> On Fri, 23 May 2014, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> > They don't affect the global build. >> >> >> >> They do. >> > >> > They don't. >> >> Your patch, your commit message, please explain *why* you think they >> wouldn't or shouldn't affect the global build. Just to mention one >> thing, why someone modifying cflags in sub makefiles shouldn't cause >> rebuild? > > Go to emacs/Makefile, it's basically a stub, why would any modifications > there affect the global build? It's not included anywhere. > > emacs/Makefile.local is included in the global build, emacs/Makefile is > not.
Fair enough. And what is the benefit of not depending on them, since they hardly ever change? I'd rather err on the depending side. BR, Jani.