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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:22:16 +0200
> 
> >> > And then what does one do if a bootstrap fails half-way through, and
> >> > one wants to continue it after fixing the problem?
> >> 
> >> That's an expert operation with tripup potential.
> >
> > No, it isn't.  Continuing from where the previous run with the same
> > arguments left off is a normal Make operation.
> 
> bootstrap is not exactly a standard target, and we don't have a target
> bootstrap-clean that would avoid having to call configure from scratch.

What I described above is common for _all_ targets in the Makefile.
That's how Make works, so deliberately disrupting that to such an
extreme degree as suggested here would unpleasantly surprise users.