From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs build broken? Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:44:51 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <363d22a1-d98d-4d05-9a5c-c90fdb590ec4@p13g2000pre.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264669224 22522 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2010 09:00:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:00:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 28 10:00:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NaQEf-0008AP-Bk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:00:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52523 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NaQEe-0005FK-OF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:00:20 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!p13g2000pre.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.24.225 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1264664691 548 127.0.0.1 (28 Jan 2010 07:44:51 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:44:51 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p13g2000pre.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.24.225; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176463 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71534 Archived-At: I did (for a emacs 23 build) $cvs update -dP $make distclean make bootstrap After a lot of grinding it stops at (last few lines) Generating autoloads for mail/rmailmm.el... Generating autoloads for mail/rmailmsc.el... Generating autoloads for mail/rmailout.el... Generating autoloads for mail/rmailout.el...done Generating autoloads for mail/rmailsort.el... Generating autoloads for mail/rmailsum.el... End of file during parsing make[3]: *** [autoloads] Error 255 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/siva/pdsw/emacs/lisp' make[2]: *** [/home/siva/pdsw/emacs/src/../lisp/loaddefs.el] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/siva/pdsw/emacs/src' make[1]: *** [src] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/siva/pdsw/emacs' make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2 When I did downloaded a fresh tar.bz2 of 23.1 it has compiled ok. So I guess this is a broken build. So ok... during development builds can break. My question is how do I do a cvs update (rather than a full download) and yet stay with relatively stable emacs versions?