Re: The 'cross' directory

[Helmut Eller]

On Thu, Aug 17 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> 8. Even with all the .elc files in place, make still wants to execute
>>    bootstrap-emacs for things like
>> 
>>    GEN ../lisp/leim/quail/CCDOSPY.el
>>    or
>>    GEN ../../lisp/cedet/semantic/bovine/c-by.el
>>    or
>>    ELC ../lisp/loaddefs.elc
>> 
>>    I just waited and let it proceed, as I didn't know any shortcuts.
>
> Why is this a problem?  If it runs on the host (which it should),
> that's okay.  If it runs only after Emacs was dumped, that's indeed a
> problem, but again: in a release tarball all those *.elc files should
> already be present.

It's not a problem.  It was just surprising to me; but I only have
superficial and probably incorrect understanding of the build process.
It might me a problem if switching frequently between build and host
machine is slow or impractical.

Helmut