From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make maintainer-clean invokes gcc. It shouldn't, surely?
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:29:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807302229.m6UMTewO010817@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080730132005.GC3952@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:20:05 +0000")
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> Hi, Emacs,
>
> I'm going mad. I'm going round and round in circles in update hell.
>
> I couldn't build Emacs last night or this morning, so in the end I
> copied my entire emacs directory to somewhere new, and did
>
> % make maintainer-clean
>
> on it. Guess what? Somehow, it calls gcc in an attempt to compile
> .../src/Makefile.c
>
> make maintainer-clean is meant just to delete everything apart from the
> raw source. So how does it go about this? rm -rf *.o *.elc ......???
I would advice you build in a separate directory. (I always do).
mkdir /tmp/objs
cd /tmp/objs
/PATH_TO_EMACS_SOURCES/configure
make
If things go south, just remove /tmp/objs and restart. From
time to time you might have to remove loaddefs.el or do a "make maintainer-clean",
but in general things work without hitches.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-30 13:20 make maintainer-clean invokes gcc. It shouldn't, surely? Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-30 13:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-30 22:29 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
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