From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:28:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uej79m1lw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080607194140.GD1420@thyrsus.com>
> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:41:40 -0400
> From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>:
> > "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:
> > > I have been unable to work on vc.el for about *two weeks* now because
> > > the recommended "make maintainer-clean; configure; make bootstrap"
> > > consistently fails with this:
> >
> > It never occurred to you to _say something_ during those "two weeks"?
>
> I have other things I'm working on. I'd hit the wall, think "Usual breakage,
> somebody will get it just like the previous times", and go do something else.
>
> Two weeks of breakage got to be a bit much. I was about ready to ship a loud
> complaint when the build system thread happened.
In my experience, a bootstrap never remains broken for more than a few
hours. If it isn't fixed in a day, I look for problems local to my
sandbox.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-07 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-06-07 13:20 ` Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61 Eric S. Raymond
2008-06-07 14:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-07 14:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-07 15:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-07 15:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-07 16:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-07 18:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-07 19:39 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-06-07 19:53 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-07 20:10 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-06-07 20:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-07 21:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-06-08 2:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-07 21:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-07 21:13 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-06-08 8:21 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-07 21:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-07 19:37 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-06-07 19:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-07 22:14 ` Nick Roberts
2008-06-07 22:42 ` joakim
2008-06-07 22:47 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-08 2:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-08 2:50 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-10 10:36 ` use git, not cvs Jim Meyering
2008-06-10 10:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-10 11:00 ` Jim Meyering
2008-06-10 11:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-10 11:08 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-10 11:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-10 11:27 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-10 11:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-10 11:34 ` Jim Meyering
2008-06-10 11:20 ` Jim Meyering
2008-06-10 11:26 ` Nick Roberts
2008-06-10 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-07 19:35 ` Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61 Eric S. Raymond
2008-06-07 14:20 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-07 14:23 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-07 19:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-06-07 20:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-06-08 0:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-06-08 0:42 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-07 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-07 19:55 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-06-07 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-07 21:26 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-06-07 22:52 ` Thomas Lord
2008-06-08 0:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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