From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails.
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:17:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8wxh57jx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lk1hawpx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:09:14 +0900")
>> Rather than improve the documentation of our Makefile's brokenness,
>> we should fix the beast. E.g. `make bootstrap' should begin by doing
>> a `maintainer-clean'.
> Doesn't that remove configure/Makefile/...?!
Well, maybe you shouldn't take the above too literally.
> [Removing those seems unnecessary and annoying/dangerous-if-you're-making...]
Indeed, you wouldn't want to do that in maintainer-clean.
But maintainer-clean does more, otherwise it wouldn't be useful before
running ./configure.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-07 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-07 10:14 Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-07 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-07 18:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-07 19:09 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-07 20:17 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-06-07 19:57 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-07 20:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-07 20:52 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-07 21:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-07 22:22 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-08 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-08 8:33 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-08 9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-08 9:32 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-08 19:01 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-08 2:46 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-06-08 3:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-08 5:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-06-08 8:21 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-08 3:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-08 8:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-09 1:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-07 19:55 ` Glenn Morris
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