Subject: Re: bug#15404: make_timespec undefined

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:51:55 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Alas, bootstrapping tends to cause me a lot of trouble.  For instance,
>> it deletes the old version of Emacs, so if anything goes wrong,
>> I am basically shafted until I get it fixed.
>
> One way of avoiding such a total loss is to have 2 separate bzr
> branches, both bound to the main one on Savannah.

Low-tech version:

  cp -pr trunk trunk.bak

before bootstrapping trunk.