From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 25359@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25359: autoreconf no longer suffices
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 21:59:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k2aaegux.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1wpeawrbj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Wed, 04 Jan 2017 14:36:16 -0500)
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 14:36:16 -0500
>
> After cloning a fresh Emacs, one used to be able to do:
>
> autoreconf -fi -I m4
>
> then configure etc.
>
> In current master, this no longer works:
>
> automake: error: cannot open < lib/../nt/gnulib.mk: No such file or directory
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
>
> I think it is wrong to make autogen.sh compulsory in this way.
Why do you think it's wrong?
> (Obviously the missing file is irrelevant anyway on non MS-Windows
> platforms.)
Evidently, it isn't irrelevant, otherwise the error would have never
happened, right?
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-04 19:36 bug#25359: autoreconf no longer suffices Glenn Morris
2017-01-04 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-01-06 18:13 ` Glenn Morris
2017-01-06 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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