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Re: Emacs in CVS as today does not build - emacs depends on *.elc, which


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Emacs in CVS as today does not build - emacs depends on *.elc, which cannot be built without emacs
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 22:03:24 +0300

> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:40:02 +0100
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thorbj=F8rn_Ravn_Andersen?= <address@hidden>
> 
> >>Why does the main "make" not compile the lisp files?
> >
> >It does, if you say "make bootstrap".  Plain "make" assumes the *.elc 
> >files are already there.
> >
> I understood that.  I still do not understand why the normal "make" 
> command in the "./compile; make; make install" cycle does not do this?

Because compiling them takes a lot of time if we compile all of them.

It's possible to compile only those which aren't compiled, but setting
this up is not easy, as Stefan explained, and was not done yet.
(Please remember that anon CVS access to Emacs development sources is
relatively new.)




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