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authorGlenn Morris <[email protected]>2008-04-12 03:18:33 +0000
committerGlenn Morris <[email protected]>2008-04-12 03:18:33 +0000
commitc3de239774f0b1f17219a456be0dd7f52f9be9ec (patch)
tree2346b4e6557b5c5ed1bb087dd6b5903df05902f5 /INSTALL.CVS
parentcd6ef82d85dcd34f98b2ae6cec97b495f9a4e8ca (diff)
Mention configuring after maintainer-clean.
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diff --git a/INSTALL.CVS b/INSTALL.CVS
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@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
Very occasionally changes in the source can introduce
incompatibilities with previous builds. If a bootstrap fails, as a
-last resort try "make maintainer-clean" before bootstrapping again.
-If CPU time is not an issue, the most thorough way to rebuild, and
-avoid any spurious problems, is always to use "make maintainer-clean;
-make bootstrap".
+last resort try "make maintainer-clean" before configuring and
+bootstrapping again. If CPU time is not an issue, the most thorough
+way to rebuild, and avoid any spurious problems, is always to use this
+method.
Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,