From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [patch] leim/Makefile.in: make distclean should make clean Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:54:30 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <216-Mon16Feb2004215430+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <87y8r4i27c.fsf@marant.org> <200402152335.IAA17134@etlken.m17n.org> <2914-Mon16Feb2004113906+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <2832.62.160.59.178.1076935035.squirrel@webmail.nerim.net> <9681-Mon16Feb2004181325+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <1076951222.4030f8b6a47af@imp2-q.free.fr> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076961407 30479 80.91.224.253 (16 Feb 2004 19:56:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:56:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 16 20:56:28 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Asoqy-0006Xt-00 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:56:28 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Asoqx-0004zn-00 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:56:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Asoq6-0008E4-Vu for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:55:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Asopg-0008CJ-SF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:55:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Asop5-0007yj-83 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:55:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.22] (helo=gollum.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Asop4-0007xX-On for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:54:30 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (pns03-205-225.inter.net.il [80.230.205.225]) by gollum.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.4-GR) with ESMTP id CLM84989; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:54:22 +0200 (IST) Original-To: jmarant@free.fr X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <1076951222.4030f8b6a47af@imp2-q.free.fr> (message from =?iso-8859-1?b?Suly9G1l?= Marant on Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:07:02 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19989 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19989 > Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:07:02 +0100 > From: =?iso-8859-1?b?Suly9G1l?= Marant > > I'm currently working on an emacs-snapshot Debian package > which will make us easier to prepare upcoming stable releases > and to find problems with the build system ASAP. > > I'm building it from a tarball I do generate from make-dist > and every time I clean the package, I remove .elc files > as well as autogenerated .el ones. I think this warrants a special target to remove all *.elc files. The situation you describe is pretty much special. > There is a rationale for removing them: we usually apply > patches (which may modify .el files) prior to bootstrapping > emacs, so we need to regenerate them anyway. That doesn't require to remove them first: Make will DTRT when it sees that the corresponding *.el files changed, and will compile only those which are in the need.