From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Wheeler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Failure During make on Mac OS X 10.2.1 Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 10:04:23 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5640FDF0-D304-11D6-89B9-0003931A964A@wheeler.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v546) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033232770 32222 127.0.0.1 (28 Sep 2002 17:06:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 17:06:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17vL2f-0008NX-00 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 19:06:09 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17vLlS-0001ZM-00 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 19:52:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17vL2k-0005S8-00; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:06:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17vL10-0005FZ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:04:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17vL0y-0005Ez-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl092-190-153.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.190.153] helo=mercury.kineticode.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17vL0y-0005Eq-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:04:24 -0400 Original-Received: from wheeler.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.kineticode.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g8SH4OhT012417; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 10:04:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: akochoi@shaw.ca In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.546) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8221 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8221 On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 08:52 PM, Andrew Choi wrote: > It doesn't seem that you're doing a `make bootstrap' at the top-level > directory while you got this error message. Otherwise lisp/abbrev.elc > would have already been created. The top-level Makefile will not try > to create ../etc/DOC before that happens. Oh. > Are you in fact doing a `make bootstrap' when you got the above > messages? If not, can you please try doing that. No, I didn't 'make bootstrap'. Perhaps mac/INSTALL should be updated to specify that this must be done. It seems to suggest that 'make bootstrap' is optional. Or does this only apply because the sources are from CVS rather than a release distribution? > One thing to try is running `make extraclean; ./configure > <...whatever...>; make bootstrap'. If the same thing happens, please > send a few more lines (say 50) at the end of the build. I'll try it now. > General help requests like this one are probably more suitable for the > USENET newsgroup gnu.emacs.help than emacs-devel. Do people still use usenet? ;-) Regards, David -- David Wheeler AIM: dwTheory david@wheeler.net ICQ: 15726394 http://david.wheeler.net/ Yahoo!: dew7e Jabber: Theory@jabber.org