From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Spurious "file errors" when making master Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 00:36:43 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5746A78B.6050202@cs.ucla.edu> References: <5746A61F.3030406@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464248234 13646 80.91.229.3 (26 May 2016 07:37:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 07:37:14 +0000 (UTC) To: martin rudalics , emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 26 09:37:00 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b5pql-0007Fk-Vl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2016 09:37:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37210 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5pqk-0001Gq-Qk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2016 03:36:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51708) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5pqf-0001GY-0b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2016 03:36:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5pqa-0001x9-RV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2016 03:36:52 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:45357) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5pqa-0001ww-Lu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2016 03:36:48 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F1A4161380; Thu, 26 May 2016 00:36:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id lX_OEpFmA8jR; Thu, 26 May 2016 00:36:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 893EF161371; Thu, 26 May 2016 00:36:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id xgywzze6JNXc; Thu, 26 May 2016 00:36:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6E3E6161380; Thu, 26 May 2016 00:36:43 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 In-Reply-To: <5746A61F.3030406@gmx.at> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:204027 Archived-At: martin rudalics wrote: > The second one is from Debian and goes as > > Error running git rev-parse: (file-error "Searching for program" "No such file > or directory" "git") I don't observe this on Ubuntu 16.04. When are you seeing this? autogen.sh? gitlog-to-changelog? emacs-repository-version-git? I assume you have git installed; is it on a network directory that is flaky, or perhaps something is setting PATH to a value that does not include the directory where git is?