Document the from-scratch make target.

feeley · Oct 4, 2013 · 4fdf5bc · 4fdf5bc
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diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -350,6 +350,19 @@ the name of the C compiler in CC.  Here are some examples.
 
 Here is a description of the most useful "make" targets:
 
+  % make from-scratch        Builds the system from source where the .c
+                             files which are generated from .scm files
+                             are stale.  This is normally the case after
+                             cloning the Gambit repository (because the
+                             repository HEAD keeps track of the latest
+                             .scm files, but not the .c files generated
+                             from them).  This way of building Gambit may
+                             fail if the Gambit compiler itself has
+                             evolved in an incompatible way since the latest
+                             release (the Gambit maintainer should prevent
+                             this situation by creating a release when the
+                             compiler changes incompatibly).
+
   % make bootstrap           Builds the system and copies the gsc
                              executable to gsc-boot in the root directory.
                              The makefiles call up gsc-boot to

diff --git a/include/stamp.h b/include/stamp.h
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
  */
 
 #define ___STAMP_YMD 20131004
-#define ___STAMP_HMS 163654
+#define ___STAMP_HMS 170816