Re: 23.0.60; Bootstrap failure

[Bob Rogers]

   From: David Hansen <address@hidden>
   Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:06:26 +0200

   On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 16:58:24 -0400 Bob Rogers wrote:

   > This is in trunk, right?  IIUC, address@hidden is for
   > reporting bugs in pre-release versions.

   I used M-x report-emacs-bug

   AFAIK emacs-pretest-bug is now an alias for emacs-devel

And INSTALL.CVS even says the following:

        Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of
        Emacs should be sent to address@hidden rather than
        gnu.emacs.help or gnu.emacs.bug.

So I was wrong.

   >    That said, I saw the same problem, but doing:
   >
   >    make maintainer-clean
   >    ./configure
   >    make bootstrap
   >
   > cleared it up.

   Thanks.  I think it's not the first time I read this advice.  Should we
   add a note to INSTALL.CVS?

   David

Good idea.  How about the attached?

                                        -- Bob

Index: INSTALL.CVS
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/INSTALL.CVS,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -r1.12 INSTALL.CVS
--- INSTALL.CVS 8 Jan 2008 20:46:39 -0000       1.12
+++ INSTALL.CVS 6 Apr 2008 22:17:43 -0000
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@
   $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
 
 If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
+If "make bootstrap" fails, which does happen on occasion, you will
+need to do "make distclean" or "make maintainer-clean" and then rerun
+./configure before doing "make bootstrap".
 
 Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
 platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,