From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:26:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr6bft7mu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g4iqwrgq6w.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:20:07 -0400")
> Can anyone explain why `mostlyclean' is called after compiling the
> lisp files? Things seem to work fine (and obviously more quickly)
> without doing this.
I do not have an answer for that. I was also surprised when this was
done (when I originally worked on the bootstrap code to remove the .elc
files from the CVS repository, I didn't force regeneration of the .o
and temacs file and I cannot remember any bug report about it).
But recently someone mentioned the issue of cross-compiling and in this
context it makes sense: the bootstrap-emacs (and its temacs) should be
compiled for the host platform so we can generate the .elc files, and
then the final `emacs' (and its `temacs') need to be compiled for the
target platform.
Not that cross-compiling is a common occurrence (it's definitely not
supported out-of-the-box for example).
Stefan "who rarely bootstraps anyway"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-03 5:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-03 3:20 bootstrap compiles C files twice Glenn Morris
2008-06-03 5:26 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-06-03 16:14 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-06-03 7:55 ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-03 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-03 18:40 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-03 19:16 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-03 20:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-03 20:52 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-06-04 3:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-04 3:14 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-06-04 3:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-04 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-03 22:18 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-04 3:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-04 19:20 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-05 3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-05 19:29 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-06 9:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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