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Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails. |
Date: |
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:40:11 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> Any objections?
Yes.
> ! So if 'make bootstrap' fails, it may be necessary first to do 'make
> ! maintainer-clean' to clear out these stale files. You can then try
> ! again, starting with `./configure'. (Occasionally the loaddefs.el
> ! file gets into a bad state due to changes in the Lisp libraries; this
> ! procedure forces it to be regenerated.)
[ Alan, this is not aimed at you. ]
Rather than improve the documentation of our Makefile's brokenness,
e should fix the beast. E.g. `make bootstrap' should begin by doing
a `maintainer-clean'.
Stefan
- Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Alan Mackenzie, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails.,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Miles Bader, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Glenn Morris, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., David Kastrup, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., David Kastrup, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/08
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., David Kastrup, 2008/06/08
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/08