From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A target that's even more bootstrap? Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:18:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <837e9iubyp.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0japujz.fsf@telefonica.net> <87v9x1oib6.fsf@telefonica.net> <877e9h1tli.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87k1dho9b4.fsf@telefonica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="132046"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 19 18:23:13 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hddMe-000YEp-MS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:23:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40166 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hddMd-0000Zr-NX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:23:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57884) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hddIS-0000YV-KH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:18:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hddIR-0004iH-Fj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:18:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54522 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hddIP-0004fR-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hddIM-000Suz-Vn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:18:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:upNN1SmhEofmWYIaOsFR8UQlrsw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:237916 Archived-At: > The reason for this practice was explained to me time ago and it is > related to your case (two or more out-of-tree builds, reuse .elc) No, the reason for this is that it was designed for the case where you build from a tarball rather than from a Git clone (AFAIK it was designed before I wrote the "bootstrap" code which made it possible to build Emacs without having all the .elc files pre-built, i.e. before we started using CVS). Stefan