Re: master 3fd2b00a4b 2/2: ; * Makefile.in: Add "make bootstrap configure=default" as a first choice.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 16:02:47 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, larsi@gnus.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 
>     stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 
> >>> That's what we (mistakenly) call "bootstrap".  If it doesn't clean 
> >>> well enough, its clean stage should be improved.
> >>
> >> You mean, make bootstrap-clean identical to extraclean, except perhaps 
> >> that it wouldn't remove config.cache?
> >
> > If extraclean does a good job, yes.  (I think someone said it didn't?)
> >
> 
> It depends how you define "good".  What it does is, in a repository that 
> was not modified otherwise, equivalent to "git clean -fdx".  Unlike "git 
> clean -fdx" however, it does not remove files that were created by the 
> user (e.g. .patch or .bak files).

"Good job" for this purpose means anything that could interfere with a
clean build.