Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el

[David Kastrup]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (David Kastrup) writes:
> 
> |> Now the question is whether
> |> make bootstrap
> |> can get off the ground without requiring an initial loaddefs.el.
> 
> You can't.  Dumping Emacs requires loaddefs.el, but that can only be
> generated if you have already built Emacs previously.  Chicken'n'egg.

Well, one could rename the CVS version of loaddefs.el to something
like
loaddefs-bootstrap.el
and then the Makefile would copy to loaddefs.el prior to doing the
bootstrap just in case the latter has not been generated yet.

It simply makes CVS maintenance more of a hassle if CVS-controlled
files get overwritten in the course of compilation.

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