Re: Automatic bootstrap

[Paul Michael Reilly]

Richard M Stallman wrote:
> A week or so there was a discussion about the inconvenience of the
> existence of `make bootstrap'.  I suggested that we create a source
> file bootstrap.el whose compiled file, bootstrap.elc, would control
> whether `make emacs' does a bootstrap or not.  We could also change
> bootstrap.el trivially after installing any change which we think
> makes it advisable for testers to bootstrap afresh.

What would be the content of bootstrap.el?

-pmr