Re: Problem report: No syntax highlight for C

["Jie Zhang" <jzhang918@gmail.com>]

On 6/5/06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 23:04:50 +0800
> > From: "Jie Zhang" <jzhang918@gmail.com>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, acm@muc.de, mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp
> >
> > After reading your email, I tried "make bootstrap; make install" and
> > found then the highlighting works for C mode. Then I tried "make; make
> > install" again, however highlighting still works. Even "rm -rf
> > /home/jie/installs/emacs; make; make install" works now. It's rather
> > strange.
>
> I'm guessing that you had some stale *.elc files in your tree, and
> "make bootstrap" cured that, because it removes all *.elc files and
> recompiles them anew.
>
Is it possible that the *.elc in my previous installed emacs caused
this issue? I found that I was prompted to "make bootstrap" when there
is no emacs installed. But I don't have to do "make boostrap" when
there is an emacs in stalled. How about to make "make bootstrap" the
default when doing "make"?

Jie