From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: error building emacs from clean clone
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:32:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efqbfivd.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-_xMBRYZ3sBLkCyW-hTE53gTwL7a8yxC7GXbzULFJD6pw@mail.gmail.com> (Noam Postavsky's message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2017 05:17:13 -0400")
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-10 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-09 14:25 error building emacs from clean clone Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-10-09 15:58 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-09 22:32 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-10-09 22:35 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-10 0:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-10 2:03 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-10-10 8:35 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-10 8:51 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-10-10 9:17 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-10 9:32 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2017-10-10 9:45 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-10 8:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-10-10 8:52 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-10-10 8:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-10-10 9:09 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
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