From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git help please - checking out old commit doesn't find lib/gnulib.mk.in. Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 19:22:20 +0100 Message-ID: <87tvxzxspv.fsf@linux-m68k.org> References: <20171112180959.GB20916@ACM> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510510958 20405 195.159.176.226 (12 Nov 2017 18:22:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 18:22:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 12 19:22:33 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 1eDwtr-0004jY-IZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 19:22:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50913 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDwtu-0004LG-74 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:22:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60283) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDwto-0004LB-Bs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:22:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDwtl-0003TX-7j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:22:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([2001:a60:0:28:0:1:25:1]:36658) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDwtl-0003TI-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:22:25 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3yZhvK2jlXz1qsWL; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 19:22:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.70]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3yZhvK1cX3z1sBGx; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 19:22:21 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bBM8VosNvh93; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 19:22:20 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: uT7iTeJE5mTg6EgS69xBlsHvuDgcwv/VvEoAjM+kW4QRPIkVlCOc1T13ttB6PoDR Original-Received: from localhost (ppp-188-174-159-67.dynamic.mnet-online.de [188.174.159.67]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 19:22:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 09CED2C19FD; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 19:22:20 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: I'm having fun HITCHHIKING to CINCINNATI or FAR ROCKAWAY!! In-Reply-To: <20171112180959.GB20916@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 12 Nov 2017 18:09:59 +0000") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:a60:0:28:0:1:25:1 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:220102 Archived-At: On Nov 12 2017, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Emacs. > > I'm attempting to check out a moderately old version of Emacs with: > > $ git checkout 10c0e1c > > . This appears to work. I then attempt to build it with: > > $ time make -j17 bootstrap > > . This fails with: > > make: *** No rule to make target 'lib/gnulib.mk.in', needed by 'Makefile'. Stop. > > . It would appear that the git checkout has failed to restore the state > of the given commit, in that it hasn't restored the indicated file. Is > this in fact the case? Makefile and a lot of other files aren't tracked, so they cannot be restored in any way. You need to rerun autogen.sh. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."