From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Confusion in INSTALL.CVS instructions
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:06:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv63npz3la.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d4hx71pd.fsf@gmail.com> (Jay Belanger's message of "Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:34:06 -0500")
Harry> It's not clear if on a fresh checkout one is supposed to run
Harry> both `make bootstrap' and `make' or if `make bootstrap' takes
Harry> the place of `make'.
>>
>> `make bootstrap' indeed takes the place of `make'.
> I thought that `make' by itself would call bootstrap if necessary, so
> only `make' is necessary.
Indeed. "make bootstrap" is only needed when after "cvs update" you
encounter some odd situation. After a fresh checkout, both "make" and
"make bootstrap" should be completely equivalent.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-19 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 18:22 Confusion in INSTALL.CVS instructions Harry Putnam
2008-10-10 2:24 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-10-19 2:34 ` Jay Belanger
2008-10-19 3:06 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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