Re: Idea for bootstrapping

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:34:39 -0700 (MST)
> 
>     Isn't it possible to do the followings?
>     (1) start temacs
>     (2) set pureify-flag to nil
>     (3) load all files (*.el) that are necessary to
>     byte-compile bytecomp.el and its subsidiaries.
> 
> This means those files would be running interpreted.
> 
>     (4) byte-compile bytecomp.el and its subsidiaries.
>     (5) load bytecomp.elc etc
>     (6) byte-compile all the other files
> 
> Those files would still be running interpreted.
> That is the problem I am trying to solve.

We could restart temacs after step (4), and again after (6), and then
load the byte-compiled versions of the files we just compiled.  Would
that address the issue?