From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:54:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je4rkd8weo.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5k7t9r7b2.fsf@tupik.goethe.zz> (David.Kastrup@t-online.de's message of "19 Feb 2002 13:21:21 +0100")
David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) writes:
|> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
|>
|> > David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) writes:
|> >
|> > |> Now the question is whether
|> > |> make bootstrap
|> > |> can get off the ground without requiring an initial loaddefs.el.
|> >
|> > You can't. Dumping Emacs requires loaddefs.el, but that can only be
|> > generated if you have already built Emacs previously. Chicken'n'egg.
|>
|> Well, one could rename the CVS version of loaddefs.el to something
|> like
|> loaddefs-bootstrap.el
|> and then the Makefile would copy to loaddefs.el prior to doing the
|> bootstrap just in case the latter has not been generated yet.
Yes, I agree that this would be A Good Thing.
Andreas.
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[not found] <x5g040j6is.fsf@tupik.goethe.zz>
2002-02-19 6:37 ` make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el Richard Stallman
2002-02-19 7:48 ` David Kastrup
2002-02-19 9:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-19 9:59 ` David Kastrup
2002-02-19 10:08 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-02-19 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-19 14:04 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-02-19 11:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-02-19 12:21 ` David Kastrup
2002-02-19 12:54 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2002-02-20 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-20 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-19 14:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-02-20 22:12 ` Richard Stallman
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