Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

  > > Can anyone explain why `mostlyclean' is called after compiling the
  > > lisp files? Things seem to work fine (and obviously more quickly)
  > > without doing this.
  > 
  > I do not have an answer for that.  I was also surprised when this was
  > done (when I originally worked on the bootstrap code to remove the .elc
  > files from the CVS repository, I didn't force regeneration of the .o
  > and temacs file and I cannot remember any bug report about it).
  > 
  > But recently someone mentioned the issue of cross-compiling and in this
  > context it makes sense: the bootstrap-emacs (and its temacs) should be
  > compiled for the host platform so we can generate the .elc files, and
  > then the final `emacs' (and its `temacs') need to be compiled for the
  > target platform.

You need to rerun configure if bootstrap-emacs is built for the host and
then build emacs for the target, so removing the object files is
probably not related to that ... 


  > Not that cross-compiling is a common occurrence (it's definitely not
  > supported out-of-the-box for example).

Meaning that it does not work at all :-)