From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:44:33 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1014187727 29671 195.204.10.66 (20 Feb 2002 06:48:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Feb 2002 06:48:47 GMT Cc: Andreas Schwab , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16dQYY-0007iT-00 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:48:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16dQXz-0000xF-00; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 01:48:11 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16dQVP-0000qB-00; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 01:45:31 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA21905; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:44:33 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1355 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1355 On 19 Feb 2002, David Kastrup wrote: > Andreas Schwab 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 > _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel