Re: removing .elc files for `make bootstrap'

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>  Any objection to me changing `make bootstrap' to remove all .elc files
>>  at the beginning?

> I need/want a bootstrap target that is "restartable".
> So we should distinguish between `maintainer-clean' which prepares for
> a clean boostrap and `bootstrap' which just builds the files assuming that
> the dependencies are correct (or that the files were removed by
> maintainer-clean if the dependencies were not).

I think the basic problem of having old .elc is that
`require' loads it even if there exists a newer .el.  Can't
we solve this problem by having a flag variable which, if
non-nil, forces loading whichever the newer one.  Then we
can bind that variable to t on bootstrapping (or always on
byte-compiling).

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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