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


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails.
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:17:34 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

>> Rather than improve the documentation of our Makefile's brokenness,
>> we should fix the beast.  E.g. `make bootstrap' should begin by doing
>> a `maintainer-clean'.
> Doesn't that remove configure/Makefile/...?!

Well, maybe you shouldn't take the above too literally.

> [Removing those seems unnecessary and annoying/dangerous-if-you're-making...]

Indeed, you wouldn't want to do that in maintainer-clean.
But maintainer-clean does more, otherwise it wouldn't be useful before
running ./configure.


        Stefan




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