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Re: Bootstrap deleted DOC-nnn file


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Bootstrap deleted DOC-nnn file
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 12:24:47 +0300

> Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 20:22:27 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> 
> I did a bootstrap, and it deleted the existing DOC-nnn file
> that was used by the running Emacs.  As a result, that Emacs
> had no access to documentation of dumped functions.
> 
> Because DOC-nnn files are numbered with versions, and each
> time Emacs is dumped it gets a new number, there is no need
> to delete the preexisting ones.  Why not leave them alone?

But "make bootstrap" also deletes all the emacs-nnn executables,
doesn't it?  If so, there's no point in keeping their DOC files.



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