Re: Emacs in CVS as today does not build - emacs depends on *.elc, which cannot be built without emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

> 
> On Sat, 02 Nov 2002 21:24:47 -0500
> "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Does anybody care ?
> > As I said, I almost never bootstrap
> 
> Well, I bootstrap daily. Some days more than once.
> 
> Mostly as a test, to check that it still bootstraps. It´s not unheard of
> that a change in the sources breaks bootstrapping *precisely* because
> bootstrapping, being almost unnecesary, is often not checked after a
> change.

The question was: do you care whether you have to say

        make bootstrap
or
        make clean bootstrap

when you want to do your consistency-check bootstrap ?


        Stefan