From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Two problems on MacOS Catalina...
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:01:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191118180117.56b2de9d@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191118203637.GA84843@breton.holly.idiocy.org>
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 20:36:37 +0000 Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:
> > > > My first thought is to try "make bootstrap;make install" and
> > > > then copy the Emacs.app directory again.
> > >
> > > I will try that and report back.
> >
> > That works. But: it was never necessary to "make bootstrap"
> > before to get a working emacs. What has changed, and can it be
> > documented in INSTALL?
>
> Sometimes it is necessary. I don’t know why but some changes to the
> codebase have required ‘make bootstrap’ for as long as I’ve been
> building Emacs. Usually a number of people post to emacs-dev asking
> why they can’t build master any more.
In that case, I think it would be good to document this in INSTALL.
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-18 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-16 22:40 Two problems on MacOS Catalina Perry E. Metzger
2019-11-17 19:19 ` Alan Third
2019-11-17 23:15 ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-11-18 16:17 ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-11-18 20:36 ` Alan Third
2019-11-18 23:00 ` Perry E. Metzger
2019-11-19 7:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-18 23:01 ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2019-11-19 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 16:54 ` Filipp Gunbin
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