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Re: make bootstrap fails


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: Re: make bootstrap fails
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:24:43 -0400
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> So if I fix this bug, and add something to test/automated/vc.bzr.el to
>> prevent it coming back, may I then turn off vc during the Emacs build?
>
> No, because it might hide other bugs.  We want to eat our own dog-food.

IMO, it's making people who want to build Emacs eat dog food.

We should write more VC test cases, rather than forcing people who just
want to build the thing to test it for us. I've added one for this case,
and fixed it.



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