Re: Problem building emacs from bzr

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi!
>
> I get a build error concerning the files crt1.o, crti.o and crtn.o in /usr/lib when trying to build emacs dev (bzr) on Ubuntu 11.04. The follow lines fixes things but this is ugly:
>
> pushd /usr/lib
> sudo ln -s i386-linux-gnu/crt1.o .
> sudo ln -s i386-linux-gnu/crti.o .
> sudo ln -s i386-linux-gnu/crtn.o .
> popd
>
> Is there another way to instruct the build system to find these files in i386-linux-gnu. Is this a bug in structure of the gcc-installation on Ubuntu 11.04? Maybe I should ask gnu.gcc.help aswell...
>
> Any feedback appreciated...
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Nordlöw
>
>
> Error follows:
>
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/per/ware/emacs/lib-src'
> boot=bootstrap-emacs;                         \
> 	if [ ! -x "src/$boot" ]; then                                     \
> 	    cd src; make all - --jobserver-fds=3,4 -j                                   \
> 	      CC='ccache gcc-4.5' CFLAGS='-march=native -fshow-column -fdirectives-only -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops  -ftree-vectorize -ftree-vectorizer-verbose=1 -floop-interchange -floop-block -flto' CPPFLAGS=''         \
> 	      LDFLAGS='-Wl,-znocombreloc ' MAKE='make' BOOTSTRAPEMACS="$boot"; \
> 	fi;
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/per/ware/emacs/src'
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/crt1.o', needed by `temacs'.  Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/per/ware/emacs/src'

Note that the bzr build process has recently changed. You now need to
run ./autogen.sh to generate a new configure script rather than running
autoconf directly. 

I built emacs from bzr sources earlier this week with no problems on two
ubuntu 10.10 boxes.

Tim

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