From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make bootstrap fails
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:46:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlim3cd0k.fsf-monnier+INBOX@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x2d37fnqo4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:54:51 -0400")
>>> Running bzr status --no-classify dired.el...FAILED (status 4)
>>
>> Please report it as a bug. It might be triggered by a problematic
>> installation of Bzr or something else, but Emacs's build should not fail
>> just because it can't determine the VC status of a file.
> The simple solution is just to disable all vc backends while building
> (not like they can do anything at all except cause a slow-down), as
> previously suggested:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-08/msg00461.html
> However there was some opposition to the idea.
As explained back then: if it's a problem while building Emacs, there's
no reason to think it won't be a problem in other use cases. So it
should be fixed the right way, rather than swept under the carpet.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-11 0:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-04-10 2:46 ` make bootstrap fails Stefan Monnier
2012-04-10 22:54 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-11 0:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-04-11 2:10 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-11 2:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-11 3:24 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-11 10:22 ` Chris Van Dusen
2012-04-08 23:46 Chris Van Dusen
2012-04-09 3:04 ` Kuroishi Mitsuo
2012-04-09 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-09 13:49 ` Chris Van Dusen
2012-04-09 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-09 16:41 ` cavd
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