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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: Emacs in CVS as today does not build - emacs depends on *.elc, which cannot be built without emacs |
| Date: | Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:34:21 -0500 |
> For the make-package script in the Mac OS X, it will run make bootstrap
> if lisp/abbrev.elc is missing.
> What would be the argument(s) against adding to the root Makefile a
> dependency on a specific .elc file that would force "make bootstrap" if
> starting from scratch? It is not "doing it right", but it seems to
> work.
The argument against it (for me anyway) is that the bootstrap
target in the Makefile does a pretty thorough `clean' before doing
its job: I don't want to have to rebuild each and every elc file just
because I happen to have deleted abbrev.elc.
But I guess this begs the question: why does the bootstrap target
do such a thorough `clean' at all ?
Stefan
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