Re: A more radical cleanup for make bootstrap?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Didn't Gerd say deleting all the checked in *.elc files was what "make
> bootstrap" was originally intended for, though?

It's developed over the years to do more, and we've been saying "have
you tried 'make bootstrap'?" to people for decades now for all kinds of
reasons.  We shouldn't change that, since that's what people will find
when googling.