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Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails.
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:57:03 -0400
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Rather than improve the documentation of our Makefile's brokenness,
> e should fix the beast.  E.g. `make bootstrap' should begin by doing
> a `maintainer-clean'.

I already made it run autogen-clean, which should fix the autoload issue.
More I think might be overkill.

But do what you like. People will still build some other way and get
all huffy when it fails.





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