Re: Yet another bootstrap failure: Required feature `esh-groups' was not provided

[Stefan Monnier]

> Unless one has the energy to debug build failures, it's hardly worth the
> hassle of cvs-updating Emacs at the moment.  It _never_ builds cleanly -
> unless the moon is currently blue.  It seems it's not just me.

Unless you have extra time to waste, I strongly recommend not to
bootstrap all the time.  But it wouldn't solve your problem in this
case, admittedly.

> Given that people seem to expect that "make bootstrap" works all the
> time, would it be a good idea to make "make bootstrap" to first clean
> everything first so that it starts from a clean slate and then it has a
> greater chance of meeting people's expectations?
> This might reduce the amount of time you have to spend responding to
> these types of messages... 

100% agreement.


        Stefan