From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Build-time dependencies Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:22:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20080606155915.GA3953@muc.de> <20080606203541.GA1741@muc.de> <20080607095024.GC1812@muc.de> <20080607200821.GI1812@muc.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213032292 12593 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2008 17:24:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:24:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 09 19:25:34 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 1K5l7c-0005FA-SO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:25:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41598 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5l6p-0008AF-HW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5l6F-0007uk-Sa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:24:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5l6E-0007tZ-4p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:24:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36875 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5l6E-0007tU-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:24:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:50137) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5l6D-0007Ia-Qn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:24:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1K5l4G-00038R-Vf; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:22:04 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:49:02 -0400) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:98810 Archived-At: Bootstrapping takes a long time on the OLPC. I don't like the idea of making bootstrapping an unavoidable part of building Emacs. BTW, the suggestion I made yesterday also automatically assures a bootstrap the first time you build from CVS. CVS will contain only the source file bootstrap,el, not the compiled file.