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Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails. |
Date: |
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:17:34 -0400 |
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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
- Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Alan Mackenzie, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Miles Bader, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails.,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Glenn Morris, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., David Kastrup, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., David Kastrup, 2008/06/07
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/08
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., David Kastrup, 2008/06/08
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/08
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., David Kastrup, 2008/06/08
- Re: Patch to INSTALL.CVS to clarify why `make bootstrap' sometimes fails., Glenn Morris, 2008/06/08