Re: master 3fd2b00a4b 2/2: ; * Makefile.in: Add "make bootstrap configure=default" as a first choice.

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> No, "bootstrap" means just that: build a program when some components
> needed for the build are missing.  Thus, "bootstrap" is not
> necessarily supposed to make sense when those components are present.
>
> We are actually using "bootstrap" in a different role: as a build from
> a clean tree.  (And when you actually build a fresh checkout, it is
> nowadays unnecessary to say "make bootstrap", as GNUmakefile does TRT
> in that case if you just say "make".)
>
> So maybe we should repurpose "bootstrap", and rename it while at that,
> to something like "clean-build" or somesuch.

Hmm, but in that case, what target should be used to resolve incremental
build failures?

"make clean; make" perhaps?