From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bootstrapping Emacs-23.0.60-trunk newly broken (GNU/Linux, Cygwin)
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:18:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48007E59.7040805@alice.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u7if3a31s.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii ha scritto:
>> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:45:00 +0200
>> From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
>>
>> cd emacs
>> ./configure
>> make bootstrap
>>
>>
>> Yes, it is heavy, but it is the only clean method that will guarantee
>> the patches do no introduce regressions.
>
> Actually, there is no practical way to know for sure that changes
> don't introduce regressions, in general. While "make bootstrap" will
> make sure a bootstrap works on the submitter's machine (and is
> recommended to those that can afford it), it says nothing about other
> ways of building Emacs, nor about other machines and OSes we support.
Obviously.
But how could the trunk users to test a new patch if it breaks the
bootstrap?
I thought that passing the bootstrap was the minimal request for
submitting a patch and that this would be reached if all start with the
same conditions in bootstrapping.
Sorry if I has been wrong.
> So please calm down. The development trunk will inevitably become
> broken from time to time, no matter what. If you must build the trunk
> every day or even more frequently, and depend on the resulting binary
> for your daily work, I suggest to make some arrangements to have the
> previous working build available until you are sure the new one builds
> and works successfully.
I think that on my backup DVDs I have working build until two months ago.
And if I build so often, it is to avoid the pile-up of bugs (when they
are present) that would make hard to solve, mainly on Cygwin, on which
no cygwin-guys take care of them.
Sorry newly for the noise,
Angelo.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-12 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-11 9:06 Bootstrapping Emacs-23.0.60-trunk still fails (GNU/Linux, Cygwin) Angelo Graziosi
2008-04-12 7:45 ` Bootstrapping Emacs-23.0.60-trunk newly broken " Angelo Graziosi
2008-04-12 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-12 9:18 ` Angelo Graziosi [this message]
2008-04-12 9:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-12 11:46 ` Romain Francoise
2008-04-12 12:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-12 12:16 ` martin rudalics
2008-04-12 13:41 ` Romain Francoise
2008-04-12 12:53 ` martin rudalics
2008-04-13 9:31 ` Romain Francoise
2008-04-13 14:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-14 0:52 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-12 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-12 14:06 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-12 14:24 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-04-12 10:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-12 9:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
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