Re: A more radical cleanup for make bootstrap?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: gregory@heytings.org,  larsi@gnus.org,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>   stefan@marxist.se,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:55:20 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> It generally takes 10-15 minutes for me to build Emacs in ideal
> >> conditions from "make bootstrap", with much of that time taken up by
> >> building temacs.  It takes longer when I am actually working on Emacs,
> >> because that typically happens while my machine is already under load.
> 
> > Why do you bootstrap?
> 
> Because the incremental build fails and I cannot get it to work by
> eyeballing what elc files to delete, usually due to an obscure
> macro-expansion error in tramp.

I usually have no problems identifying the offending *.elc files.  And
if that fails (which it does very rarely), then this never fails:

  $ find ./lisp -name "*.elc" -delete
  $ make