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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thorbj=F8rn_Ravn_Andersen?= wrote:

> Kim F. Storm wrote:
> 
> >This question pops up time and again!
> >
> >Maybe we could add a test to the makefile, so that doing 'make' if
> >e.g. lisp/files.elc does not exist, it does 'cat INSTALL_CVS'
> >and exits?
> >
> I didn't find this document.

The correct file name is INSTALL-CVS.  Do you see that file?  If not, 
please fetch it from the CVS.

> Why does the main "make" not compile the lisp files?

It does, if you say "make bootstrap".  Plain "make" assumes the *.elc 
files are already there.