GNU bug report logs - #2151
23.0.90; Building the 23.0.90 pretest recompiles Lisp files

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:15:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #70 received at 2151 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 2151 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2151: 23.0.90; Building the 23.0.90 pretest recompiles Lisp files
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:07:58 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 2151 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:49:16 -0500
> 
> >> I'd rather not if the patch I suggested works.  Does it?
> 
> > Maybe it does, but it isn't meant to solve the problem at hand, as it
> > builds bootstrap-emacs unconditionally.
> 
> Not sure what you mean.  It solves the title problem "pretest recompiles
> Lisp files".  AFAIK the only thing it does unnecessarily is to dump
> Emacs twice.

Yes.  And the Right Solution (IMO) is to invoke src/Makefile with
`boot' argument empty, which would only dump once and not recompile
anything.
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