From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bootstrap failure on MS-Windows Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 20:35:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <134n7uab5v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83r4au7li4.fsf@gnu.org> <83mwli7gwq.fsf@gnu.org> <87txfq1iic.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383701713 22315 80.91.229.3 (6 Nov 2013 01:35:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 01:35:13 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 06 02:35:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vds1d-0004Wp-U1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 02:35:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59339 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vds1d-0001qi-GO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 20:35:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55095) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vds1Z-0001ow-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 20:35:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vds1V-0002Uu-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 20:35:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54594) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vds1V-0002Ug-RT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 20:35:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vds1V-0002Ju-4I; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 20:35:09 -0500 X-Spook: Jiang Zemin IDEA FIPS140 subversive Iran MP5K-SD UOP X-Ran: x%>K*VOJUKE>vZoR:kho@w-E*{p7XE51N(5+?EE.[}E5'FQjT8i?ETO9kWL0Fm-wKKS>Ob X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87txfq1iic.fsf@wanadoo.es> (=?utf-8?Q?=22=C3=93scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Wed, 06 Nov 2013 01:27:55 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164994 Archived-At: =C3=93scar Fuentes wrote: > I don't run the configure script before bootstrapping on a directory > used on a previous build. I just do `make bootstrap -j4'. > > What I *think* that happens is: > > * the bootstrap target depends, directly or indirectly, on the > configure (and, possibly, autogen) scripts. > > * when those are dirty, the script is executed before cleaning the > build directory. > > * as the previous step deletes the files generated by `./configure', > the script is executed again. FWIW I got fed up by the overzealousness of this some time ago. Personally I use something like make maintainer-clean configure make rather than make bootstrap. I imagine `make bootstrap' is being technically correct. (AFAIK none of this is new or has any relevance to the initial topic of this discussion.)