Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Elias Mårtenson <lokedhs@gmail.com> writes:

> Whenever I rebuild, I do:
>
> rm -fr *
> git reset --hard
> ./autogen.sh
>
> I've resorted to doing that every time I rebuild a new version, as all other
> options have at one point or another caused issues.

Yeah, it's a pain.  If you pull down a fresh "git clone" of Emacs, it
always works, but if you've done a "git pull" for a while, you
invariably end up in a situation where none of the sanctioned methods
for building Emacs works and most users seem to just remove the entire
tree and pull down a new copy.  Which is slow and annoying.

Relying on git to get to a clean state (like you're doing here) sounds
like a possible idea.  Perhaps a target that removes all non-tracked
files?  However, that sounds rather destructive: The user may have other
stuff in there, and having a target that's that dangerous is perhaps
overkill...

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