Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lute Kamstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> So you do the following? >> >> 1. Checkout a clean working copy of Emacs' CSV. >> 2. Run "make-dist --snapshot" to get a tarball (without .elc or info >> files). >> 3. Unpack this tarball. >> 4. Run ".configure" and "make bootstrap" on that tree. > > Exactly. > >> What about the patch below then? It makes sure that make-dist never >> distributes ldefs-boot.el (that way, ldefs-boot.el will never be >> installed either) and it ensures that a tarball created by the above >> method can bootstrap. > > Many people already proposed that
Huh? I didn't see it in any of the messages posted to emacs-devel. They all talked about changing Emacs' Makefiles or the Debian script, not about changing make-dist. > but this is wrong since 'make maintainer-clean', which undoes the > bootstrap, will remove loaddefs.el (which is fine since > autogenerated files have to be removed). > > Hence, I can't bootstrap more than once with the same tarball. Out of curiosity: do you have any special reason to do a "make maintainer-clean" before a second "make bootstrap"? Why do a second bootstrap at all? > How about leaving ldefs-boot.el and see if it hurts? Apart from being redundant under normal circumstances, it probably doesn't hurt in any way. Come to think of it: it's actually a nice feature that the distribution tarball allows a "make maintainer-clean" and then a ".configure" plus "make bootstrap". You convinced me to distribute ldefs-boot.el. ;-) Lute. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
