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From: William G. Gardella <wgg2@member.fsf.org>
To: 15404@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: bug#15404: Mitigating "make bootstrap" trashing the tree
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:16:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9javyn9.fsf@motoko.kusanagi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1VM2ZN-0004wC-SP@fencepost.gnu.org>

Hello,

One suggestion to help avoid "make bootstrap" trashing the source tree
and your old emacs build would be to use "bzr stash" to make a
temporary, local copy of your previous build.  Another idea would be to
do something like make install DESTDIR=built-on-`date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M`,
so that even if you do not wish to install globally whenever you build
Emacs, you at least have past successful builds in a convenient place.

Ultimately, however, I think "make bootstrap" should avoid doing lots of
implicit things like deleting old builds.  It should be reversible
somehow without needing to know bzr hacks or redirect the output of
previous builds.  Automated functions that make a mess should clean up
after themselves.

-- 
Regards,
WGG





  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-18 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-17 21:12 bug#15404: make_timespec undefined Richard Stallman
2013-09-17 22:05 ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-18 13:38   ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-18 14:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-18 21:51       ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-19 21:18         ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-19  7:09       ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-19  7:33         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-19  7:46           ` Andreas Schwab
2013-09-18 16:19     ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-18 16:22       ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-18 17:31       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-18 21:54         ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-19  7:08       ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-19  7:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-19 21:18           ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-19  7:40         ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-18 17:16 ` William G. Gardella [this message]
2013-09-18 19:25   ` bug#15404: Mitigating "make bootstrap" trashing the tree Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-18 20:00     ` William G. Gardella

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