From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: acm@muc.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails.
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:22:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85k5h0dgx3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u7id1lzgt.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:14:26 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:52:45 +0200
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> >> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> >> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:40:11 -0400
>> >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> >>
>> >> `make bootstrap' should begin by doing a `maintainer-clean'.
>> >
>> > And then what does one do if a bootstrap fails half-way through, and
>> > one wants to continue it after fixing the problem?
>>
>> That's an expert operation with tripup potential.
>
> No, it isn't. Continuing from where the previous run with the same
> arguments left off is a normal Make operation.
bootstrap is not exactly a standard target, and we don't have a target
bootstrap-clean that would avoid having to call configure from scratch.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-07 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-07 10:14 Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-07 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-07 18:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-07 19:09 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-07 20:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-07 19:57 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-07 20:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-07 20:52 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-07 21:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-07 22:22 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-06-08 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-08 8:33 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-08 9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-08 9:32 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-08 19:01 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-08 2:46 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-06-08 3:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-08 5:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-06-08 8:21 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-08 3:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-08 8:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-09 1:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-07 19:55 ` Glenn Morris
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