From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Current CVS doesn't bootstrap Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 02:45:34 +0100 Message-ID: References: <01c4c3f3$Blat.v2.2.2$7e8aa060@zahav.net.il> <01c4c41c$Blat.v2.2.2$0fa338a0@zahav.net.il> <200411062248.iA6MmEm29919@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200411070125.iA71PZx00083@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099792671 14751 80.91.229.6 (7 Nov 2004 01:57:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 01:57:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 07 02:57:40 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CQcJH-0005pP-00 for ; Sun, 07 Nov 2004 02:57:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CQcRY-0003Q5-Ts for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:06:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CQcRS-0003Q0-Iz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:06:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CQcRS-0003Po-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:06:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CQcRS-0003Pl-4C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:06:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CQcIj-0003Oo-Vr; Sat, 06 Nov 2004 20:57:06 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C81FBECE8; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 02:45:35 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck X-Yow: Xerox your lunch and file it under ``sex offenders!'' In-Reply-To: <200411070125.iA71PZx00083@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Sat, 6 Nov 2004 19:25:35 -0600 (CST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29497 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29497 Luc Teirlinck writes: > Andreas Schwab wrote: > > Alternatively, we could implement an option that tells load to ignor= e > *.elc files that are out of date and load the *.el file instead. > > This would actually be a change that would be far more drastic and > general than the two alternatives. Its effect would not be limited to > bootstrapping. It's only an option, maybe even hidden. I never proposed to enable that by default. > Moreover, if a .el file is newer than the .elc file, then I _believe_ > that the present version of make bootstrap _already_ recompiles > anyway. (It is a long time ago that I did a `make bootstrap' without > a prior `make maintainer-clean', however.)=20 But the problem is that the file to be compiled may require other files with a out-of-date elc files. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."