From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: error building emacs from clean clone Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:32:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87efqbfivd.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <3DDF897F-B005-4AF0-9B06-4AC9D9EC8FD1@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507628038 4487 195.159.176.226 (10 Oct 2017 09:33:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:33:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cc: Jean-Christophe Helary , emacs-devel To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 10 11:33:50 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 1e1qut-0006y5-R5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:33:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33736 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e1qv0-0001qd-V0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 05:33:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41315) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e1quj-0001oj-VA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 05:33:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e1quf-0001V3-3W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 05:33:25 -0400 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([78.129.138.110]:58806) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e1que-00016I-Q0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 05:33:21 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=QWMDqhfLEsWAxTf2zFCkSbtZyx488h3c8QS09jFeFgA=; b=qp5JEyVce+6aBAiMus5DCTimV A019h2xTysuWDH2Gk/9xZfxWXYXCI5VH/quQAcRRrfZjhSXVv+mkXOa2gwRZg36igjFutp8EhB0xW 0PUjy0uN+fAKBtRTWLwqhYql4BpogIosT4ZZv861MVTSvWS3A/R9KE2DN7FcAxzIFIO16gdKlU5NM KI1Ewf6BzjgdnaAqR94ewdQvmSxwROoeqrAShD9tCUv10opapwUnjzjl5B9HTlBp06Zcm9+HdUD/q MT50oUmT73GfDcIDvNgBguYHRsDocpgBEKZCBf+ropYgES7IlS960RL7lHh/8L6y58l1mse9bPaJc D6eVn8JNw==; Original-Received: from janus-nat-128-240-225-84.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.225.84]:52966 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1e1qty-002wE1-M3; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:32:38 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Noam Postavsky's message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2017 05:17:13 -0400") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 78.129.138.110 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:219332 Archived-At: Noam Postavsky writes: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 4:51 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary > 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