Re: Current head won't build

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Randal L. Schwartz writes:

 > Except that I had been moving *forward*.  If "make clean bootstrap" does
 > not do the right thing when moving forward, it's really broken.

"make clean bootstrap" is broken, asking for trouble.  "make clean" by
design does not get you to a state suitable for bootstrapping:

## make clean  or  make mostlyclean
##      Delete all files from the current directory that are normally
##      created by building the program.  Don't delete the files that
##      record the configuration.  Also preserve files that could be made
##      by building, but normally aren't because the distribution comes
##      with them.

##      Delete `.dvi' files here if they are not part of the distribution.

## make distclean
##      Delete all files from the current directory that are created by
##      configuring or building the program.  If you have unpacked the
##      source and built the program without creating any other files,
##      `make distclean' should leave only the files that were in the
##      distribution.

You want at least "make distclean bootstrap".