From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: extraclean and admin/grammars [was Re: Git master head build failure?] Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2021 16:57:20 +0300 Message-ID: <83a6qgg56n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875z16en2o.fsf@gmail.com> <83mtuih3en.fsf@gnu.org> <835z16gnkj.fsf@gnu.org> <83y2e2f22w.fsf@gnu.org> <87zgyikmui.fsf@gnus.org> <83v995g8lo.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1jsls85.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39806"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rgm@gnu.org, theophilusx@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 02 15:58:23 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lSKJa-000AGV-Om for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2021 15:58:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55630 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lSKJZ-0000Bn-QW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2021 09:58:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54660) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lSKIr-0008Dx-SE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2021 09:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60436) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lSKIr-0005AE-D8; Fri, 02 Apr 2021 09:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4040 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lSKIo-0006DZ-9B; Fri, 02 Apr 2021 09:57:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r1jsls85.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 02 Apr 2021 15:40:42 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:267298 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: rgm@gnu.org, theophilusx@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2021 15:40:42 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > I thought I explained the reasoning: "make bootstrap" is for > > bootstrapping Emacs, not for building from a pristine worktree. > > I don't understand what you mean the difference between "bootstrapping > Emacs" and "building from a pristine worktree" is. Bootstrapping Emacs means building a working Emacs executable when we either have no Emacs executable at all or that executable isn't working or is broken for some reason. IOW, bootstrapping Emacs doesn't _have_ to delete all generated files, though it _might_ delete those which are in the way of building a working Emacs.