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Re: Build-time dependencies
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Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
Re: Build-time dependencies |
Date: |
Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:44:21 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> What exactly is the point of doing this supposed to be?
>> To make non-bootstrap builds more reliable?
>
> To make dependencies between Lips files explicit in lisp/Makefile.in,
> and thus causing Make to compile Lisp files in the right order. Right
> now, whenever some Lisp files change, I frequently need to "make
> recompile" several times, sometimes removing stale *.elc files
> manually, until it finally succeeds, because it basically compiles
> them in a random order.
I think that's what I said.
My solution is just to delete all the *.elc and not think about it.
The time it takes to fully rebuild Emacs is nothing special compared
to other modern applications.
I would just discourage the use of `recompile' et al except by those
who know what they are doing, have slow machines, and need to rebuild
Emacs frequently. But I know a lot of people seem to feel differently.
- Re: Yet another bootstrap failure: Required feature `esh-groups' was not provided, (continued)
- Re: Yet another bootstrap failure: Required feature `esh-groups' was not provided, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/06/07
- Re: Yet another bootstrap failure: Required feature `esh-groups' was not provided, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/07
- Re: Yet another bootstrap failure: Required feature `esh-groups' was not provided, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/06/07
- Re: Yet another bootstrap failure: Required feature `esh-groups' was not provided, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/06/07
- Re: Yet another bootstrap failure: Required feature `esh-groups' was not provided, Romain Francoise, 2008/06/07
- Re: Yet another bootstrap failure: Required feature `esh-groups' was not provided, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/07
- Build-time dependencies, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/07
- Re: Build-time dependencies, Glenn Morris, 2008/06/08
- Re: Build-time dependencies, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/08
- Re: Build-time dependencies, David Kastrup, 2008/06/08
- Re: Build-time dependencies,
Glenn Morris <=
- Re: Build-time dependencies, Glenn Morris, 2008/06/08
- Re: Build-time dependencies, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/09
- Re: Build-time dependencies, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/06/09
- Re: Build-time dependencies, David Kastrup, 2008/06/09
- Re: Build-time dependencies, Robert J. Chassell, 2008/06/09
- Re: Build-time dependencies, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/09
- Re: Build-time dependencies, Glenn Morris, 2008/06/09
- Re: Build-time dependencies, Miles Bader, 2008/06/09
- Re: Build-time dependencies, Glenn Morris, 2008/06/09
- Re: Build-time dependencies, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/06/10