From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A more radical cleanup for make bootstrap? Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:45:36 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33505"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , Po Lu , Stefan Monnier , Stefan Kangas , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 19 23:46:46 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oaObG-0008WY-19 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 23:46:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45078 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaObE-0002Zi-NW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 17:46:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaOaE-0001pr-2U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 17:45:42 -0400 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]:48106) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaOaC-0004EY-Dc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 17:45:41 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20220101; t=1663623937; bh=hN/krZa7XeYPFuhYd7zngub2V+BT7drdrV1VJSUlRaM=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=YFoiPbhvj15ER8fG02gAJZ798ZPKxZklG1dUYWD9jUKcS3Nw3TbEMinF/r1L/PPwr 87P3rPzMJSk3lQ5lz/DqXm10RjaXO9zLE8cE5oYG2JIOyiYr3y8hdZJLe+6TkY6TYo zdVYHN2GjzMsFL4sLY/UFVguUhctqTwBnwsJ7n6mWB4bJBpem/gCu7wqSKD1V/swAr DRS2qwV7oPpG4/3DUxIYCe3z2eerqmmIjzcdfWv/Z3jSwF2u69HS9X+M3h7yOT0i0P 2LbnNk93WRLCSnsQZeyVFbNhWJZ+pja641e5SpqgCliPzcgLw1vvzpnwO6lSmb7t90 HljsMpuWqXCCA== In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.142.160.155; envelope-from=gregory@heytings.org; helo=heytings.org X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:295764 Archived-At: > > It's not clear from the comments what extraclean does. The comments > just say it does "delete backup and autosave files, too", without > specifying the files whose backup and autosave files get deleted. > extraclean removes all generated files, and also all *~ and #* files. If removing these files is a potential problem, they could perhaps be kept by bootstrap (or be kept conditionally to some variable). But note that *~ files are by default not created by Emacs, unless you've set vc-make-backup-files to t in your init file.