From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs in CVS as today does not build - emacs depends on *.elc, which cannot be built without emacs Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:34:21 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200211011534.gA1FYLc02782@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036165042 1263 80.91.224.249 (1 Nov 2002 15:37:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:37:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stefan Monnier" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 187drM-0000KF-00 for ; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 16:37:20 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 187dxU-0002cE-00 for ; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 16:43:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187dq6-0003Ng-00; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:36:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 187doZ-0002xh-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:34:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 187doX-0002x7-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:34:26 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187doX-0002x3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:34:25 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gA1FYLc02782; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:34:21 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Steven Tamm Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9038 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9038 > For the make-package script in the Mac OS X, it will run make bootstrap > if lisp/abbrev.elc is missing. > What would be the argument(s) against adding to the root Makefile a > dependency on a specific .elc file that would force "make bootstrap" if > starting from scratch? It is not "doing it right", but it seems to > work. The argument against it (for me anyway) is that the bootstrap target in the Makefile does a pretty thorough `clean' before doing its job: I don't want to have to rebuild each and every elc file just because I happen to have deleted abbrev.elc. But I guess this begs the question: why does the bootstrap target do such a thorough `clean' at all ? Stefan