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Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.e
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:44:33 +0200 (IST) |
On 19 Feb 2002, David Kastrup wrote:
> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > address@hidden (David Kastrup) writes:
> >
> > |> Now the question is whether
> > |> make bootstrap
> > |> can get off the ground without requiring an initial loaddefs.el.
> >
> > You can't. Dumping Emacs requires loaddefs.el, but that can only be
> > generated if you have already built Emacs previously. Chicken'n'egg.
>
> Well, one could rename the CVS version of loaddefs.el to something
> like
> loaddefs-bootstrap.el
> and then the Makefile would copy to loaddefs.el prior to doing the
> bootstrap just in case the latter has not been generated yet.
>
> It simply makes CVS maintenance more of a hassle if CVS-controlled
> files get overwritten in the course of compilation.
>
> --
> David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
> Email: address@hidden
>
- Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el, Richard Stallman, 2002/02/19
- Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el, David Kastrup, 2002/02/19
- Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el, Andreas Schwab, 2002/02/19
- Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el, David Kastrup, 2002/02/19
- Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el, Andreas Schwab, 2002/02/19
- Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/02/20
Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el, Stefan Monnier, 2002/02/19