bug#26274: 26.0.50; completion regression

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:28:18 -0400 Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> This is commit a3207a383009720bbd89327425e0eb1c9c20c267.  I have now
>> found an older build from master from February 8, commit
>> e3b659630843de7e459bce483c278af765c644f7, which does not have this
>> completion problem.  However, when I run git bisect on these commits and
>> then make, it fails as follows:
>> [...]
>
> m4/count-leading-zeros.m4 is added by [1: 74f87fd], maybe try deleting
> aclocal.m4 to stop autoconf from trying to find it when building older
> commits? (although I would have thought autoreconf with the '-f' flag
> would be doing that already)

Thanks, removing that file allowed configure to complete, but now I get
this:

checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
make: *** No rule to make target 'lib/gnulib.mk.in', needed by 'Makefile'.  Stop.

git bisect skip doesn't eliminate this failure.

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:27:03 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:00:30 +0200
>> 
>> >> March 15 and it also shows the problem).  To reproduce:
>> 
>> This is commit a3207a383009720bbd89327425e0eb1c9c20c267.  I have now
>> found an older build from master from February 8, commit
>> e3b659630843de7e459bce483c278af765c644f7, which does not have this
>> completion problem.
>
> If so, then please see if the problematic commits are one or more of
> these:
>
>   commit 9f9863e50298a3506165cc1f056ab3238f37cb9f
>   Author:     Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
>   AuthorDate: Fri Feb 17 16:36:44 2017 +0100
>
>       Fix build failure caused by `Generate upcase and downcase tables from Unicod
>
>   commit 6220faeb4e9be16b9dec728e72ea8dff2cfe35ba
>   Author:     Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
>   AuthorDate: Wed Sep 7 21:00:57 2016 +0200
>
>       casing: don't assume letters are *either* upper- or lower-case  (bug#24603)
>
>   commit 5ec3a58462e99533ea5200de356302181d634d0b
>   Author:     Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
>   AuthorDate: Mon Sep 19 00:23:40 2016 +0200
>
>       Generate upcase and downcase tables from Unicode data  (bug#24603)

My guess is the first of these, since it's between the bad and good
builds; the other two commits are much earlier.  But given the above
make failure, I don't know how to build that commit (or the one before
it).

Steve Berman