From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A more radical cleanup for make bootstrap? Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 10:01:49 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87mtavnm5m.fsf@gnus.org> <838rmeydqf.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35871"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, gregory@heytings.org, luangruo@yahoo.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 20 13:13:39 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oabC6-0009ED-Mu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 13:13:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37152 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oabC5-0001gb-F0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 07:13:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56444) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaa4j-0006Sz-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 06:01:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mx3.muc.de ([193.149.48.5]:37197) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaa4g-00075m-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 06:01:56 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 99949 invoked by uid 3782); 20 Sep 2022 12:01:50 +0200 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4fe15d4d.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.93.77]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:01:49 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 7383 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Sep 2022 10:01:49 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <838rmeydqf.fsf@gnu.org> X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Received-SPF: pass client-ip=193.149.48.5; envelope-from=acm@muc.de; helo=mx3.muc.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:295795 Archived-At: Hello, Eli. On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 05:35:36 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 20:49:23 +0000 > > Cc: Gregory Heytings , Po Lu , > > Stefan Monnier , > > Stefan Kangas , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > From: Alan Mackenzie > > > > If the choice is between failing to delete some generated files, and > > deleting unrecoverable files, I'd take the first choice. > What are "unrecoverable files" in this context, please? Can you give > a couple of examples of such files? I was thinking of xdisp.c~ and simple.el~. Also, perhaps, myfile.el. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).