From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Build failure in master for GNU: "error: cannot open < lib/../nt/gnulib.mk: No such file or directory" Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:52:44 +0200 Message-ID: <83o9zdcr1v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170111172220.GA10374@acm.fritz.box> <83vatlctzo.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1484166276 20268 195.159.176.226 (11 Jan 2017 20:24:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 20:24:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 11 21:24:28 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cRPRY-0004Lk-7n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:24:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56848 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRPRc-0001Ly-M3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:24:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49312) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cROxC-0004u5-8c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:53:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cROx8-00040m-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:53:02 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55585) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cROx8-00040i-GZ; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:52:58 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3919 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cROx5-0005RO-Nu; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:52:58 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 11 Jan 2017 20:35:32 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:211210 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 20:35:32 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > gnulib.mk is needed to produce Makefile.in, which is needed to produce > > Makefile, so Makefile cannot detect these things. > > There is a Makefile there No, there's GNUmakefile, which just includes Makefile if that exists (which it does in this case). > For instance, if you check in "make"-breaking changes, then you could > also check in something that has the necessary commands to make "make" > work again. I couldn't find a way of doing that without significant changes in our Makefiles, something for which I had no time, sorry. Running autogen.sh every once in a while is not a big deal, really. > We just have to establish some kind of mechanism -- for > instance, a special directive in the commit message? Or something else. I don't think I understand what you have in mind. What directive?