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Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails. |
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Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:52:45 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:40:11 -0400
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
>> `make bootstrap' should begin by doing a `maintainer-clean'.
>
> 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. The default bootstrap
should just work, however slowly.
Maybe we should add a target "continue-bootstrap" if this occurs often
enough to make people want it.
Anyway, maintainer-clean does too much: it kills the record of how I ran
configure the last time. If we had a "bootstrap-clean", that would
possibly already help.
Of course, all of these are extra targets and extra doc. But I think
that the default bootstrap should be rather safe than sorry.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- 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, 2008/06/07
- 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 <=
- 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
- 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., Glenn Morris, 2008/06/08
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Eric Hanchrow, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/06/08