From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails. Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:22:16 +0200 Message-ID: <85k5h0dgx3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20080607101446.GD1812@muc.de> <85tzg5c6hu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212877362 3012 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2008 22:22:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:22:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 08 00:23:24 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K56oi-0000zG-S9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:23:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45564 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K56nv-00017v-Sc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:22:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K56nr-000171-Iz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:22:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K56np-000146-1S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:22:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47078 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K56no-00013w-VY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:22:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-16.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.56]:59481) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K56nj-00084q-Q2; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:22:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-19-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-19-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.36]) by mail-in-16.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF3F1F7624; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 00:22:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.49]) by mail-in-19-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355816C146; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 00:22:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-086-055.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.86.55]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 932F83425E5; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 00:22:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 403EC1C68DEE; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 00:22:17 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:14:26 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/7397/Sat Jun 7 20:25:13 2008 on mail-in-09.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:98641 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: David Kastrup >> Cc: Stefan Monnier , acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:52:45 +0200 >> >> Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >> >> From: Stefan Monnier >> >> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:40:11 -0400 >> >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> >> >> `make bootstrap' should begin by doing a `maintainer-clean'. >> > >> > And then what does one do if a bootstrap fails half-way through, and >> > one wants to continue it after fixing the problem? >> >> That's an expert operation with tripup potential. > > No, it isn't. Continuing from where the previous run with the same > arguments left off is a normal Make operation. bootstrap is not exactly a standard target, and we don't have a target bootstrap-clean that would avoid having to call configure from scratch. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum