Re: A more radical cleanup for make bootstrap?

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 05:35:36 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 20:49:23 +0000
> > Cc: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,
> >  Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
> >  Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> > 
> > If the choice is between failing to delete some generated files, and
> > deleting unrecoverable files, I'd take the first choice.

> What are "unrecoverable files" in this context, please?  Can you give
> a couple of examples of such files?

I was thinking of xdisp.c~ and simple.el~.  Also, perhaps, myfile.el.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).