Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:
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.)
I agree that bootstrap should do maintainer-clean.
I wasn't aware of the change so I was a bit confused by the original
report. If you want to compile faster, use "make recompile" to
recompile the .elc files followed by a normal "make".