From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:44:04 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: * Makefile.in: Comment.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-24.3.90~173^2^2~42^2~45^2~394
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c6e8118637bb50b75026f6582348eeb200f72313;p=emacs.git

* Makefile.in: Comment.
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diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index 065e192d3ae..20678a73f33 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -373,6 +373,11 @@ lib lib-src lisp nt: Makefile FRC
 # file src/foo.c forces dumping a new bootstrap-emacs, then re-byte-compiling
 # all preloaded elisp files, and only then dump the actual src/emacs, which
 # is not wrong, but is overkill in 99.99% of the cases.
+#
+# Note the use of single quotes in the value of vcswitness.
+# This passes an unexpanded $scrdir to src's Makefile, which then
+# expands it using its own value of srcdir (which points to the
+# source directory of src/).
 src: Makefile FRC
 	dirstate='.bzr/checkout/dirstate';				\
 	vcswitness='$$(srcdir)/../'$$dirstate;				\