Re: bootstrap fails on tty-supports-face-attributes-p

[Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>]

>> As the error messages indicate, you need to remove those old .elc
>> files.  Unfortunately, `make bootstrap' does not do this automatically
>> any more.
>
>How about if we tell about "make maintainer-clean" in INSTALL.CVS, or
>mention removing *.elc files (or both)?  The current text is only good
>for someone who have just extracted a fresh CVS tree.

Hm.  Sorry if I lost a past discussion here, but I think that
having a single make target that removes old .elc files and does
bootstrapping would be useful.

Here is the comment in Makefile, which apparently is not any more
consistent with the actual behaviour:

  #### Bootstrapping.

  ### This is meant for Emacs maintainers only.  It first cleans the
  ### lisp subdirectory, removing all compiled Lisp files.  Then a
  ### special emacs executable is built from Lisp sources, which is then
  ### used to compile Lisp files.  The last step is a "normal" make.