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Re: Confusion in INSTALL.CVS instructions
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Confusion in INSTALL.CVS instructions |
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Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:06:51 -0400 |
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Harry> It's not clear if on a fresh checkout one is supposed to run
Harry> both `make bootstrap' and `make' or if `make bootstrap' takes
Harry> the place of `make'.
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>> `make bootstrap' indeed takes the place of `make'.
> I thought that `make' by itself would call bootstrap if necessary, so
> only `make' is necessary.
Indeed. "make bootstrap" is only needed when after "cvs update" you
encounter some odd situation. After a fresh checkout, both "make" and
"make bootstrap" should be completely equivalent.
Stefan