Re: make bootstrap on CVS head fails

[Luc Teirlinck]

Frank-Schmitt wrote:

   If this is necessary before a bootstrap, why doesn't bootstrap depend on
   maintainer-clean?

It used to, but that was changed to make bootstrapping run faster at
the expense of an occasional failure.  (Personally, I believe that
change was a mistake.)

   And IMO, a distclean should get rid of all compiled files including
   elc-Files.

I believe that here the argument is that .elc files are included with
distributions of released versions (although not with CVS).

Sincerely,

Luc.