From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [emacs-announce] Emacs pretest 25.0.93 Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 08:56:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83r3dv4kir.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r3dxbln9.fsf@petton.fr> <87bn50pn65.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <834mas5y4i.fsf@gnu.org> <877ffopkzt.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <8737qcpklh.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <8337qc5w01.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb38o3ll.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <83zisk4erk.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb38jqs8.fsf@web.de> <87inz8nu39.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87h9esjl2b.fsf@web.de> <83twis4364.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8kk0xzy.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1461477456 28886 80.91.229.3 (24 Apr 2016 05:57:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 05:57:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 24 07:57:31 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 1auD2x-0006RD-1G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 07:57:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54263 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auD2t-0006BA-8t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 01:57:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35163) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auD2d-00067M-3N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 01:57:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auD2Z-0004hE-PJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 01:57:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56654) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auD2Z-0004h9-MV; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 01:57:07 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3719 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1auD2Z-0001uc-0r; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 01:57:07 -0400 In-reply-to: <87a8kk0xzy.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Sun, 24 Apr 2016 00:19:13 +0200) 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-Topics: emacs-announce 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:203235 Archived-At: > From: Michael Heerdegen > Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 00:19:13 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > IOW, you both build in the same directory from 2 different Git > > branches, is that right? > > I think so. To make it clear: I had no problems with (building) Emacs > itself. > > I had Helm build with master. Then I switched to emacs-25 and tried to > upgrade Helm. Helm's makefile calling `update-directory-autoloads' gave > the error. I don't think this can be done reliably without completely cleaning your Git clone (with Git commands), in addition to "make distclean" etc. Emacs branches diverge too quickly for this to work (like it does with some other projects); it's why I use two separate directory trees to track both branches simultaneously.