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Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:14:57 -0700 |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> > Can anyone explain why `mostlyclean' is called after compiling the
> > lisp files? Things seem to work fine (and obviously more quickly)
> > without doing this.
>
> I do not have an answer for that. I was also surprised when this was
> done (when I originally worked on the bootstrap code to remove the .elc
> files from the CVS repository, I didn't force regeneration of the .o
> and temacs file and I cannot remember any bug report about it).
>
> But recently someone mentioned the issue of cross-compiling and in this
> context it makes sense: the bootstrap-emacs (and its temacs) should be
> compiled for the host platform so we can generate the .elc files, and
> then the final `emacs' (and its `temacs') need to be compiled for the
> target platform.
You need to rerun configure if bootstrap-emacs is built for the host and
then build emacs for the target, so removing the object files is
probably not related to that ...
> Not that cross-compiling is a common occurrence (it's definitely not
> supported out-of-the-box for example).
Meaning that it does not work at all :-)
- bootstrap compiles C files twice, Glenn Morris, 2008/06/02
- Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/03
- Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice, Jason Rumney, 2008/06/03
- Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/03
- Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice, Glenn Morris, 2008/06/03
- Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice, Glenn Morris, 2008/06/03
- Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/03
- Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/06/03
- Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/03
- Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/06/03
- Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/03
- Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/04