GNU bug report logs - #25443
Unnecessary building of dictionary files

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Message #8 received at 25443 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: 25443 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25443: Unnecessary building of dictionary files
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 10:48:33 -0500

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  > These generation steps therefore complicate the build and the bootstrap
  > process, as they generated before emacs is dumped. These steps could,
  > therefore, be removed, with the currently generated .el files, becoming
  > the source.

We can't do that.  We have an obligation to distribute the real source.

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