From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Current CVS doesn't bootstrap Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:55:33 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200411071855.iA7ItXw01981@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <01c4c3f3$Blat.v2.2.2$7e8aa060@zahav.net.il> <01c4c41c$Blat.v2.2.2$0fa338a0@zahav.net.il> <200411062248.iA6MmEm29919@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099853824 29379 80.91.229.6 (7 Nov 2004 18:57:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 18:57:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 07 19:56:57 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CQsDh-0000Vu-00 for ; Sun, 07 Nov 2004 19:56:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CQsM0-0006dH-KT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2004 14:05:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CQsLs-0006ch-Fe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2004 14:05:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CQsLr-0006c8-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2004 14:05:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CQsLr-0006br-2H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2004 14:05:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CQsCp-0001fG-GS; Sun, 07 Nov 2004 13:56:03 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iA7Iu2Fu017863; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:56:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id iA7ItXw01981; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:55:33 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 07 Nov 2004 13:04:05 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29527 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29527 Richard Stallman wrote: > I believe we discussed this before. We either have to document in > INSTALL.CVS that you have to do `make maintainer-clean' before `make > bootstrap' or we have to make sure that `make bootstrap' removes the > .elc files automatically, as it used to do. What was the motive for changing it not to do that? To make bootstrapping run faster. We discussed this before and decided to have `make bootstrap' remove the .elc files once again, but provide some alternate version bootstrap-build that does not do that. Essentially: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-09/msg00720.html Again, this was never implemented. I am not familiar enough with the Makefiles to do this myself. Sincerely, Luc.