Quoting Lute Kamstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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.
Sorry, you're right, it was proposed to do so out of make-dist, but it was the same idea. > > 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? Yes, I do. I do build a package from within the unpacked tarball, and when I do many attempts, make bootstrap and make maintainer-clean are run on the same tree many times: not to have to unpack the same tree at every attempt is handy. > > 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". Indeed. > You convinced me to distribute ldefs-boot.el. ;-) I'm glad I did :-) Thanks. -- Jérôme Marant _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
