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Re: Makefile.in
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Miles Bader |
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Re: Makefile.in |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Mar 2004 12:05:01 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:38:29AM -0600, Luc Teirlinck wrote:
> Part of the documentation in Makefile.in, quoted below, looks strange.
> From it, I would get the impression that .elc files would be deleted by
> `make clean' and certainly by `make distclean'. This does not happen. Is
> the fact that it does not happen a bug or is it to be expected?
It's been a long time since I downloaded an emacs distribution tarball, but I
think they always came with .elc files. Given this, neither `make clean' nor
`make distclean' should delete them. A CVS checkout is _not_ a distribution.
[And I think `make clean' should never delete them, because they are too
expensive to recreate from scratch -- much more expensive than just
recompiling all the C code]
-Miles
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