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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:44:33 +0200 (IST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020220084419.21448F-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5k7t9r7b2.fsf@tupik.goethe.zz>


On 19 Feb 2002, David Kastrup wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
> 
> > David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) writes:
> > 
> > |> Now the question is whether
> > |> make bootstrap
> > |> can get off the ground without requiring an initial loaddefs.el.
> > 
> > You can't.  Dumping Emacs requires loaddefs.el, but that can only be
> > generated if you have already built Emacs previously.  Chicken'n'egg.
> 
> Well, one could rename the CVS version of loaddefs.el to something
> like
> loaddefs-bootstrap.el
> and then the Makefile would copy to loaddefs.el prior to doing the
> bootstrap just in case the latter has not been generated yet.
> 
> It simply makes CVS maintenance more of a hassle if CVS-controlled
> files get overwritten in the course of compilation.
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
> Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de
> 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-20  6:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <x5g040j6is.fsf@tupik.goethe.zz>
2002-02-19  6:37 ` make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el Richard Stallman
2002-02-19  7:48   ` David Kastrup
2002-02-19  9:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-19  9:59       ` David Kastrup
2002-02-19 10:08         ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-02-19 11:57           ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-19 14:04             ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-02-19 11:58         ` Andreas Schwab
2002-02-19 12:21           ` David Kastrup
2002-02-19 12:54             ` Andreas Schwab
2002-02-20  6:44             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-02-20  6:47             ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-19 14:03     ` Stefan Monnier
2002-02-20 22:12       ` Richard Stallman

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