Subject: Re: bug#17300: fails to build due to defsetf, cl-define-compiler-macro in cl-macs.el (structures)

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 21:53:48 +0300

> From: Ivan Shmakov <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 17:32:40 +0000
> 
> 	Unfortunately, and unlike the majority of the GNU software I’ve
> 	dealt with, Emacs does not currently allow the user to choose:
> 	$(srcdir) gets changed irrespective of the use of a separate
> 	build directory.
> 
> 	Which makes me wonder if there’s a respective bug somewhere on
> 	the BTS, or if I should file one myself?

File it.

>  > There's nothing "unclean" about compiling just the files that were
>  > changed since the last update.
> 
> 	Except that it’s known to break builds if the dependencies are
> 	incomplete or became broken themselves.

That has become false long ago.  You need to bootstrap in some rare
cases, but mostly the build "just works".