Re: Makefile.in

[Miles Bader]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:38:29AM -0600, Luc Teirlinck wrote:
> Part of the documentation in Makefile.in, quoted below, looks strange.
> From it, I would get the impression that .elc files would be deleted by
> `make clean' and certainly by `make distclean'.  This does not happen.  Is
> the fact that it does not happen a bug or is it to be expected?

It's been a long time since I downloaded an emacs distribution tarball, but I
think they always came with .elc files.  Given this, neither `make clean' nor
`make distclean' should delete them.  A CVS checkout is _not_ a distribution.

[And I think `make clean' should never delete them, because they are too
expensive to recreate from scratch -- much more expensive than just
recompiling all the C code]

-Miles
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