From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9459: 24.0.50; Condigure aborts, complains about missing install.sh in build-aux. Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:46:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4E679942.5000204@swipnet.se> <83fwk8715p.fsf@gnu.org> <4E67B4BC.7090704@cs.ucla.edu> <83aaag6wm9.fsf@gnu.org> <4E67BA54.7060806@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1315446439 7041 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2011 01:47:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 01:47:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , 9459@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 08 03:47:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1Thv-0005Nc-2c for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:47:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48191 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1Thu-0007H7-IL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55573) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1Thr-0007H2-Kp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:47:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1Thq-0002SX-Es for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:47:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55616) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1Thq-0002ST-BP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:47:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1Tld-0005K6-Ui; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:51:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:51:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9459 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9459-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9459.131544662420417 (code B ref 9459); Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:51:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9459) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Sep 2011 01:50:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1Tl2-0005JG-EH for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:50:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183] helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1Tl0-0005J9-KV for 9459@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:50:23 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EALYdaE64rwMJ/2dsb2JhbABDDqdjeYFGAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiAi3coZrBJ0vgnWDbFQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.68,348,1312171200"; d="scan'208";a="135069185" Original-Received: from 184-175-3-9.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([184.175.3.9]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 07 Sep 2011 21:46:26 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2AA1366246; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 21:46:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4E67BA54.7060806@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:39:16 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:51:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:50695 Archived-At: >> would it be possible to have "make" spit out "Compilation failed; >> have you tried running ./autogen.sh before reporting this as a bug?" if >> building fails? > Sure. Or "make" could simply fall back on autogen.sh > if the current approach fails. That would be just as fast as > now, in the normal case where the build works, and it would have > addressed Jan's problem I expect. How about something like this? I much prefer a message, since the failure may be due to too many things. Stefan