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: Build failure on Windows Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 05:30:22 +0200 Message-ID: <83tw77hyk1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <58BBE663.4020207@gmx.at> <86zih0yoid.fsf@gmail.com> <58BC125E.9090701@gmx.at> <83fuirkas2.fsf@gnu.org> <58BC51EC.70300@gmx.at> <834lz7jxuf.fsf@gnu.org> <58BC8313.40604@gmx.at> <0fe30db5-2dfa-add0-e797-7c039225a8f1@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1488771098 7207 195.159.176.226 (6 Mar 2017 03:31:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 03:31:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 06 04:31:33 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 1ckjMw-0000xL-Hy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 04:31:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41478 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckjN1-0008AG-3N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 22:31:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42702) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckjM2-0007dw-RI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 22:30:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckjLz-0002ef-5C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 22:30:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41146) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckjLz-0002eb-27; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 22:30:31 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1909 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ckjLy-0007KF-1Z; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 22:30:30 -0500 In-reply-to: <0fe30db5-2dfa-add0-e797-7c039225a8f1@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sun, 5 Mar 2017 13:38:18 -0800) 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:212787 Archived-At: > Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 13:38:18 -0800 > > martin rudalics wrote: > > I don't know where to go from here. In the past two weeks I > > bootstrapped more often than in the past five years. And if I'm not > > mistaken others experienced the same problem. > > One possible improvement in this area is to use GNU Make's Automake-like > features instead of using Automake. This should simplify the gnulib.mk business > and should cause breakages to be less likely when the build procedure changes. The issue with gnulib.mk is no longer Martin's problem.