From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:37:02 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <200202190637.g1J6b2S15632@santafe.santafe.edu> References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1014101610 1549 195.204.10.66 (19 Feb 2002 06:53:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Feb 2002 06:53:30 GMT Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16d49a-0000Ot-00 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:53:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16d3wE-0000OB-00; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 01:39:42 -0500 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16d3tf-0008Ve-00; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 01:37:03 -0500 Original-Received: from santafe.santafe.edu (santafe [192.12.12.2]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g1J6b5u27710; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:37:05 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by santafe.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g1J6b2S15632; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:37:02 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: santafe.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@santafe using -f Original-To: David.Kastrup@t-online.de In-reply-to: (David.Kastrup@t-online.de) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1305 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1305 When I do make bootstrap, /home/tmp/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el gets overwritten, resulting in a file considered modified by CVS. Since the whole point of building Emacs in a separate directory was to leave the CVS checkout untouched, this is unsatisfactory. It would be reasonable to always update loaddefs.el in the build directory. If you want to check in a new version of loaddefs.el, you can build it in the source directory. The next question is, how hard would it be to implement this? We'd have to arrange for temacs to read loaddefs.el from somewhere in the build directory if it exists there. That is surely possible but would not be trivial. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel