From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Automatic bootstrap
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:36:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48590F58.4020201@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1K8xXI-0005mg-Oj@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard M Stallman wrote:
> A week or so there was a discussion about the inconvenience of the
> existence of `make bootstrap'. I suggested that we create a source
> file bootstrap.el whose compiled file, bootstrap.elc, would control
> whether `make emacs' does a bootstrap or not. We could also change
> bootstrap.el trivially after installing any change which we think
> makes it advisable for testers to bootstrap afresh.
>
I don't think it will work, as developers who make changes that make it
advisable to bootstrap would forget to change that file. Other
developers might change it needlessly, causing testers with low end
hardware unnecessary pain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-18 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-18 13:17 Automatic bootstrap Richard M Stallman
2008-06-18 13:36 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2008-06-19 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-20 6:46 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-19 7:50 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-06-19 18:15 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-20 2:20 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-20 19:28 ` Richard M Stallman
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