Re: make bootstrap in separate build directory will overwrite loaddefs.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 19 Feb 2002, David Kastrup wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > address@hidden (David Kastrup) writes:
> > 
> > |> Now the question is whether
> > |> make bootstrap
> > |> can get off the ground without requiring an initial loaddefs.el.
> > 
> > You can't.  Dumping Emacs requires loaddefs.el, but that can only be
> > generated if you have already built Emacs previously.  Chicken'n'egg.
> 
> Well, one could rename the CVS version of loaddefs.el to something
> like
> loaddefs-bootstrap.el
> and then the Makefile would copy to loaddefs.el prior to doing the
> bootstrap just in case the latter has not been generated yet.
> 
> It simply makes CVS maintenance more of a hassle if CVS-controlled
> files get overwritten in the course of compilation.
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
> Email: address@hidden
>