From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el Date: 19 Feb 2002 08:48:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200202190637.g1J6b2S15632@santafe.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1014105913 4284 195.204.10.66 (19 Feb 2002 08:05:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Feb 2002 08:05:13 GMT Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16d5Gz-000170-00 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:05:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16d53R-0005HS-00; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 02:51:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.80]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16d50T-0005AD-00; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 02:48:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fwd04.sul.t-online.de by mailout01.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16d50R-0005m4-01; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:48:07 +0100 Original-Received: from tupik.goethe.zz (520018396234-0001@[62.226.11.191]) by fwd04.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16d50Q-16u7pAC; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:48:06 +0100 Original-Received: (from dak@localhost) by tupik.goethe.zz (8.11.6/linuxconf) id g1J7m4r01618; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:48:04 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200202190637.g1J6b2S15632@santafe.santafe.edu> Original-Lines: 29 X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1307 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1307 Richard Stallman writes: > When I do > make bootstrap, > /home/tmp/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el gets overwritten, resulting in a > file considered modified by CVS. Since the whole point of building > Emacs in a separate directory was to leave the CVS checkout > untouched, this is unsatisfactory. > > It would be reasonable to always update loaddefs.el in the build > directory. If you want to check in a new version of loaddefs.el, you > can build it in the source directory. > > The next question is, how hard would it be to implement this? We'd > have to arrange for temacs to read loaddefs.el from somewhere in the > build directory if it exists there. That is surely possible but would > not be trivial. The question would be whether an initial copy of loaddefs.el is necessary for make bootstrap in the first place. If it isn't, the easy way out would be to remove it from CVS altogether. Since on my machine make bootstrap takes hours, I have not tested this right now. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel