Re: extraclean and admin/grammars [was Re: Git master head build failure?]

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Bootstrapping Emacs means building a working Emacs executable when we
> either have no Emacs executable at all or that executable isn't
> working or is broken for some reason.
>
> IOW, bootstrapping Emacs doesn't _have_ to delete all generated files,
> though it _might_ delete those which are in the way of building a
> working Emacs.

I still don't understand what mean here, since it's been demonstrated
several times that (in certain circumstances) people have to say "make
extraclean" to build a working Emacs executable.  So "make bootstrap"
doesn't do what it says on the tin, and the suggestion is to make it do
so.

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