From: Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Git help please - checking out old commit doesn't find lib/gnulib.mk.in.
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 19:25:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877euv9wxa.fsf@metapensiero.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20171112180959.GB20916@ACM
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> Hello, Emacs.
>
> I'm attempting to check out a moderately old version of Emacs with:
>
> $ git checkout 10c0e1c
$ git show 10c0e1c | head -3
commit 10c0e1ca40237224aa229c538fe49983ec905748
Author: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Date: Fri Feb 19 17:10:57 2016 +0000
> make: *** No rule to make target 'lib/gnulib.mk.in', needed by 'Makefile'. Stop.
$ git log lib/gnulib.mk.in | grep '^Date' | tail -2
Date: Sun Mar 19 13:07:03 2017 -0700
Date: Fri Mar 17 11:33:47 2017 -0700
It seems that at that time it wasn't there yet, so maybe the checkout of that
old version left some "debris" that confuses the makefiles?
What does "git status" gives you? Does it report "untracked files"? If so,
maybe a "git clean" could remove the problem...
ciao, lele.
--
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real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia.
lele@metapensiero.it | -- Fortunato Depero, 1929.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-12 18:09 Git help please - checking out old commit doesn't find lib/gnulib.mk.in Alan Mackenzie
2017-11-12 18:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-12 18:24 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-11-12 18:25 ` Lele Gaifax [this message]
2017-11-12 18:28 ` John Wiegley
2017-11-12 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-12 20:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-11-12 20:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-12 20:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-12 21:23 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-12 21:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-11-12 23:51 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-11-13 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-13 2:34 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-11-13 3:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-13 1:42 ` Yasushi SHOJI
2017-11-13 8:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-13 3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-13 18:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-11-13 19:13 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-13 19:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-11-13 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-13 19:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-11-13 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-13 20:30 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-11-13 20:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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