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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: alan@idiocy.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Two problems on MacOS Catalina...
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 05:37:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d0do359u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191118180117.56b2de9d@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (perry@piermont.com)

> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:01:17 -0500
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > 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.

It already is documented, only in INSTALL.REPO, not INSTALL.  The
latter is for building a release tarball, where bootstrapping should
never be required.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-19  3:37 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
2019-11-19  3:37           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-11-18 16:54     ` Filipp Gunbin

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