Re: Bootstrapping fails

[Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>]

Christoph Conrad wrote:
> Cuurent CVS Emacs:
> 
> make[1]: Entering directory `/var/local/cc/news/emacs/src'
> make[1]: *** Keine Regel vorhanden, um das Target »/var/local/cc/news/emacs/src/../lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-run.elc«,
>   benötigt von »../etc/DOC«, zu erstellen.  Schluss.
> 
> Means: no rule to make byte-run.elc needed by ../etc/DOC.

Bootstrapping fails for me too but with a different signature.  After 
getting a similar failure when compiling tex-mode.elc, I decided to to a 
fresh checkout and got the following:

[pmr@lilly emacs]$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
...
checking for C restricted array declarations... yes

Configured for `i686-pc-linux-gnu'.

   Where should the build process find the source code? 
/home/pmr/projects/gnu/emacs
   What operating system and machine description files should Emacs use?
         `s/gnu-linux.h' and `m/intel386.h'
   What compiler should emacs be built with?               gcc -g -O2 
-Wno-pointer-sign
   Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc?             yes
       (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.)
   Should Emacs use a relocating allocator for buffers?    yes
   Should Emacs use mmap(2) for buffer allocation?         no
   What window system should Emacs use?                    x11
   What toolkit should Emacs use?                          LUCID
   Where do we find X Windows header files?                Standard dirs
   Where do we find X Windows libraries?                   Standard dirs
   Does Emacs use -lXaw3d?                                 yes
   Does Emacs use -lXpm?                                   yes
   Does Emacs use -ljpeg?                                  yes
   Does Emacs use -ltiff?                                  yes
   Does Emacs use a gif library?                           yes -lgif
   Does Emacs use -lpng?                                   yes
   Does Emacs use -lrsvg-2?                                no
   Does Emacs use -lgpm?                                   yes
   Does Emacs use X toolkit scroll bars?                   yes

...
Compiling /home/pmr/projects/gnu/emacs/lisp/./url/url-cache.el
/usr/local/libexec/emacs/23.0.50/i686-pc-linux-gnu/movemail: invalid 
option -- -
Wrote /home/pmr/projects/gnu/emacs/lisp/url/url-cache.elc
...
Compiling /home/pmr/projects/gnu/emacs/lisp/./gnus/gnus-bookmark.el
/usr/local/libexec/emacs/23.0.50/i686-pc-linux-gnu/movemail: invalid 
option -- -

In toplevel form:
gnus/gnus-bookmark.el:57:1:Error: End of file during parsing: 
/home/pmr/projects/gnu/emacs/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.elc
make[2]: *** [compile] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pmr/projects/gnu/emacs/lisp'
make[1]: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pmr/projects/gnu/emacs'
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
[pmr@lilly emacs]$

So my guess is that a problem has recently been introduced into the byte 
compiler.

I'm also guessing that the "invalid option -- -" error that occurs on 
movemail is a red herring but does represent a build time issue in that 
the wrong instance of "movemail" is being used.

Hope all that is helpful to somebody.

-pmr