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Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails. |
Date: |
Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:42:15 +0300 |
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:22:16 +0200
>
> >> > 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.
> >
> > No, it isn't. Continuing from where the previous run with the same
> > arguments left off is a normal Make operation.
>
> bootstrap is not exactly a standard target, and we don't have a target
> bootstrap-clean that would avoid having to call configure from scratch.
What I described above is common for _all_ targets in the Makefile.
That's how Make works, so deliberately disrupting that to such an
extreme degree as suggested here would unpleasantly surprise users.
- 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, 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 <=
- 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
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/08
- 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., Alan Mackenzie, 2008/06/08