Re: make bootstrap on CVS head fails

[Kim F. Storm]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

> Frank-Schmitt wrote:
>
>    If this is necessary before a bootstrap, why doesn't bootstrap depend on
>    maintainer-clean?
>
> It used to, but that was changed to make bootstrapping run faster at
> the expense of an occasional failure.  (Personally, I believe that
> change was a mistake.)

I agree that bootstrap should do maintainer-clean.

For experts, there could be a bootstrap-no-clean target (with alias bootnc if
too long).

>
>    And IMO, a distclean should get rid of all compiled files including
>    elc-Files.
>
> I believe that here the argument is that .elc files are included with
> distributions of released versions (although not with CVS).


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