Re: [Failure] XEmacs 21.5-b23 "daikon" (+CVS-20051101) i586-pc-win32

Malcolm> This doesn't remove lisp/*.elc either. In fact no Malcolm> Makefile target does. Unfortunate. Malcolm> I think that the justification is that Malcolm> a) the files are portable Malcolm> b) change very rarely Malcolm> c) take a very long time to regenerate d) there is no lisp/Makefile. e) are part of the distribution and GNU standards say not to delete them in "user" targets. Malcolm> I agree that it's surprising behaviour. Should their Malcolm> removal be added to the 'realclean' target? According to the toplevel Makefile: ## when they don't work right. (beta can't depend on distclean, which ## removes necessary files generated by configure.) and realclean depends on distclean. I think the `beta' target probably should depend on the clean target that removes .elcs. So I would guess we should have either a separate elcclean target that only cleans generated lisp (it should also nuke the generated .els, I think), or the elcclean target could depend on clean. I lean to the latter. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.