From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: autogen.sh fails
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 18:30:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737cc4qtt.fsf@drachen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvak4t4y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 10 May 2017 11:40:45 -0400")
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> > I wanted to switch from master to emacs-25. I checked out the emacs-25
> > branch, I don't have any changes in the worktree.
>
> The Emacs build-tree doesn't react well to switching in-place with
> existing build products between two revisions that are far apart.
> You should either make maintainer-clean before you switch, or git clean
> after you switch, or use a separate directory for each branch (eg git
> new-workdir).
Ah, ok, I thought this is what "make distclean" is for. So many ways to
clean...
"git clean -xf" did it.
Thanks,
Michael.
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2017-05-10 11:38 autogen.sh fails Michael Heerdegen
2017-05-10 15:40 ` Glenn Morris
2017-05-10 16:30 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
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