From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git help please - checking out old commit doesn't find lib/gnulib.mk.in. Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 21:17:41 +0200 Message-ID: <83k1yukmy2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20171112180959.GB20916@ACM> <83inefmjuh.fsf@gnu.org> <20171112200651.GC20916@ACM> <83d14nmebn.fsf@gnu.org> <20171112215547.GD20916@ACM> <83a7zqn9d3.fsf@gnu.org> <20171113185343.GA3952@ACM> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510600668 19186 195.159.176.226 (13 Nov 2017 19:17:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 19:17:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 13 20:17:44 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eEKEo-0004Zi-1u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 20:17:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55990 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEKEt-0002q0-Th for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:17:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39991) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEKEk-0002ps-Kj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:17:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEKEh-00055o-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:17:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40947) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEKEh-00055g-D6; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:17:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2097 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eEKEg-0002W4-8g; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:17:35 -0500 In-reply-to: <20171113185343.GA3952@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Mon, 13 Nov 2017 18:53:43 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:220151 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 18:53:43 +0000 > Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > > > make clean and make distclean fail because around 12 files in m4/ > > > are missing. > > > These targets should be invoked _before_ checking out another > > revision, not after. Otherwise, you get a bunch of Makefile's that > > are inconsistent with the working tree contents. > > Yes, that works better, thanks. But not perfectly. You want extraclean instead, and if that isn't perfect either, it needs to be fixed to remove whatever it fails to remove. > make distclean is broken. No, it isn't. "make distclean" is for when you build from a release tarball, not when you build from Git after checking out a different version of the tree.