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| From: | Gerd Möllmann |
| Subject: | Re: master 3fd2b00a4b 2/2: ; * Makefile.in: Add "make bootstrap configure=default" as a first choice. |
| Date: | Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:37:53 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.13.0 |
> But why use the name "bootstrap" for something like that? "Bootstrap" > implies that it's built from the ground up. Right, that was my original idea at least.The history of this is that we originally had .elc files in CVS, with all the problems one can imagine that come with such an approach. I added bootstrapping to make Emacs from sources, only.
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