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Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: A target that's even more bootstrap? |
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Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:20:31 -0400 |
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> Perhaps it is worth considering the opposite approach. Currently, we
> have
>
> mostlyclean
> clean
> distclean
> maintainer-clean
> extraclean
> bootstrap-clean
FWIW, my main problem with the above is that their name doesn't actually
say what they do, so I never know which one to use.
I find those names unusually obscure.
> The the irregular hyphenation is a bit odd. But, in addition, I would
> guess that many of these levels (maintainer-clean, extraclean and
> bootstrap-clean) are really only there to save time; with parallel
> builds and faster machines I wonder how many of these are
> actually needed.
FWIW none of my machines have gotten any faster over the last 10 years.
Stefan
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- Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/18
- Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/06/19
- Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?, Andreas Schwab, 2019/06/19
- Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/19
- Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/06/19
Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/18