From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails.
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:40:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwviqwl6qg2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080607101446.GD1812@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 7 Jun 2008 10:14:46 +0000")
> Any objections?
Yes.
> ! So if 'make bootstrap' fails, it may be necessary first to do 'make
> ! maintainer-clean' to clear out these stale files. You can then try
> ! again, starting with `./configure'. (Occasionally the loaddefs.el
> ! file gets into a bad state due to changes in the Lisp libraries; this
> ! procedure forces it to be regenerated.)
[ Alan, this is not aimed at you. ]
Rather than improve the documentation of our Makefile's brokenness,
e should fix the beast. E.g. `make bootstrap' should begin by doing
a `maintainer-clean'.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-07 18:40 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 [this message]
2008-06-07 19:09 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-07 20:17 ` Stefan Monnier
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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