From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Build failure for Emacs master Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 07:41:18 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <570FAC0E.4050009@cs.ucla.edu> References: <56CCD91E.6070507@alice.it> <83egc2ixji.fsf@gnu.org> <56CD798D.7060102@alice.it> <56CD8408.1000701@alice.it> <83wppuggb4.fsf@gnu.org> <56CE2CA7.5050906@alice.it> <83io1cg2pt.fsf@gnu.org> <56DA0327.2030009@alice.it> <83oaatxu72.fsf@gnu.org> <570C4307.6050907@alice.it> <83k2k2g82s.fsf@gnu.org> <570EA823.1010404@alice.it> <570EBADD.2060604@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1460644916 27222 80.91.229.3 (14 Apr 2016 14:41:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:41:56 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 14 16:41:46 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aqiSh-0001Hg-BY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:41:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40341 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aqiSg-0004LS-LJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:41:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45423) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aqiSZ-0004F6-7I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:41:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aqiST-0004NQ-7m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:41:31 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:34975) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aqiST-0004NK-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:41:25 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98F3E16120B for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 07:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id vW_0LkkHRo_V for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 07:41:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF3AE16126B for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 07:41:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id gxf4b4-C3e4s for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 07:41:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C907C160E69 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 07:41:22 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202906 Archived-At: On 04/13/2016 06:38 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> You can now run './autogen.sh git'. >>> >>Really we need to run './autogen.sh git'? >> >Yes you need to, and yes it is silly. > Does he really need to? I thought the whole point is that it's > optional, and not desired by everyone. You're right, it's optional (though it is a good idea unless one knows Git well). And for his particular case, where he didn't have a .git subdirectory, it shouldn't be done at all. Anyway, this should be fixed now.