Re: error building emacs from clean clone

[phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)]

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 4:51 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary
> <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't know what "now" is for you, but I've tried that a number of
>> times in the past 24 hours and it still does not work.
>
> Ah, okay. It was reported that updating fixed an error which seems the
> same as what you posted:
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?users=emacs;bug=28760#11
>
> Perhaps you have something else though?
>
>> I think it's Stephan who suggested a while back that when a build
>> failed for no obvious reasons, just starting from scratch was the
>> best way to fix the issue. So I just erased my emacs directory and
>> did the git clone dance, but this time without success.
>
> Cloning from scratch is overkill, 'git clean -fx' will delete
> everything not directly from git. That way you don't have to download
> everything from the beginning.

git clean -xdf

I got hit by this once. Need to kill the directories as well.

We could add that to top-level Makefile.

Phil