From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:58:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200202190637.g1J6b2S15632@santafe.santafe.edu> <7826-Tue19Feb2002114219+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1014121214 14681 195.204.10.66 (19 Feb 2002 12:20:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Feb 2002 12:20:14 GMT Cc: Eli Zaretskii , 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 16d9Fm-0003oh-00 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:20:14 +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 16d92J-0005LS-00; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:06:19 -0500 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16d90B-0005CU-00; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:04:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 385871EB06; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:58:45 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: sykes.suse.de: schwab set sender to schwab@suse.de using -f Original-To: David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) X-Yow: Fold, fold, FOLD!! FOLDING many items!! In-Reply-To: (David.Kastrup@t-online.de's message of "19 Feb 2002 10:59:19 +0100") Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.2.50 (ia64-suse-linux) 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:1318 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1318 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. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel