From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: acm@muc.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails.
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:42:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u3anomnqw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85k5h0dgx3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:22:16 +0200
>
> >> > And then what does one do if a bootstrap fails half-way through, and
> >> > one wants to continue it after fixing the problem?
> >>
> >> That's an expert operation with tripup potential.
> >
> > No, it isn't. Continuing from where the previous run with the same
> > arguments left off is a normal Make operation.
>
> bootstrap is not exactly a standard target, and we don't have a target
> bootstrap-clean that would avoid having to call configure from scratch.
What I described above is common for _all_ targets in the Makefile.
That's how Make works, so deliberately disrupting that to such an
extreme degree as suggested here would unpleasantly surprise users.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-08 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-07 10:14 Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-07 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-07 18:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-07 19:09 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-07 20:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-07 19:57 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-07 20:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-07 20:52 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-07 21:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-07 22:22 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-08 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-06-08 8:33 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-08 9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-08 9:32 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-08 19:01 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-08 2:46 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-06-08 3:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-08 5:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-06-08 8:21 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-08 3:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-08 8:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-09 1:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-07 19:55 ` Glenn Morris
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