Re: src/Makefile unhelpful

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 07:28:09 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 
>     rms@gnu.org, luangruo@yahoo.com, sam@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 
> >> diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
> >> index d288bacb9d..67f19e7abd 100644
> >> --- a/Makefile.in
> >> +++ b/Makefile.in
> >> @@ -366,6 +366,12 @@ ELN_DESTDIR =
> >>
> >>  gsettings_SCHEMAS = etc/org.gnu.emacs.defaults.gschema.xml
> >>
> >> +default:
> >> +       $(MAKE) all || $(MAKE) signal_error
> >> +
> >> +signal_error:
> >> +       @echo -e "\nConsider trying \"make bootstrap\"\n"
> >> +
> >>  all: ${SUBDIR} info $(gsettings_SCHEMAS:.xml=.valid)
> >>  src-depending-on-lisp
> >
> > Oh, wow, I didn't even consider doing it this way...  But, yes, that'd 
> > work, I think?  (Except that we should call that rule "all" instead of 
> > "default", since that's the general convention.)
> >
> 
> Okay, I'll wait for other's feedback, and I'll push it, after some more 
> testing and after replacing "default" by "all" (and "all" by... something 
> else).

If this is what we are going to do, please also add to the message the
bit about V=1.