From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Rogers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Bootstrap failure Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 18:19:01 -0400 Message-ID: <18425.19541.353102.613762@rgrjr.rgrjr.dyndns.org> References: <87bq4nbssk.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <18425.14704.390462.513916@rgrjr.rgrjr.dyndns.org> <87zls6aba5.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="nkVzga8N3c" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207520387 26893 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2008 22:19:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 22:19:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Hansen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 00:20:19 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JidDk-0006oP-3g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:20:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JidD7-0007Ui-1b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:19:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JidCb-0007G9-Bd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:19:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JidCZ-0007FT-MZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:19:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JidCZ-0007FH-B6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:19:03 -0400 Original-Received: from c-98-216-94-251.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.216.94.251] helo=rgrjr.dyndns.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JidCZ-0000d7-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:19:03 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 16349 invoked by uid 89); 6 Apr 2008 22:19:02 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO rgr.rgrjr.dyndns.org) (192.168.57.1) by home with SMTP; 6 Apr 2008 22:19:02 -0000 Original-Received: by rgr.rgrjr.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id DB64D4B5FD; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 18:19:01 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87zls6aba5.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 23.0.60.2 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:94519 Archived-At: --nkVzga8N3c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: message body text Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Hansen Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:06:26 +0200 On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 16:58:24 -0400 Bob Rogers wrote: > This is in trunk, right? IIUC, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org is for > reporting bugs in pre-release versions. I used M-x report-emacs-bug AFAIK emacs-pretest-bug is now an alias for emacs-devel And INSTALL.CVS even says the following: Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help or gnu.emacs.bug. So I was wrong. > That said, I saw the same problem, but doing: > > make maintainer-clean > ./configure > make bootstrap > > cleared it up. Thanks. I think it's not the first time I read this advice. Should we add a note to INSTALL.CVS? David Good idea. How about the attached? -- Bob --nkVzga8N3c Content-Type: text/plain Content-Description: Content-Disposition: inline; filename="install-cvs-distclean-note.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Index: INSTALL.CVS =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/INSTALL.CVS,v retrieving revision 1.12 diff -u -r1.12 INSTALL.CVS --- INSTALL.CVS 8 Jan 2008 20:46:39 -0000 1.12 +++ INSTALL.CVS 6 Apr 2008 22:17:43 -0000 @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap". +If "make bootstrap" fails, which does happen on occasion, you will +need to do "make distclean" or "make maintainer-clean" and then rerun +./configure before doing "make bootstrap". Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat, --nkVzga8N3c--