From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: autogen.sh fails Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 11:40:45 -0400 Message-ID: <87mvak4t4y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87vap9osbl.fsf@drachen> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1494430951 2626 195.159.176.226 (10 May 2017 15:42:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 15:42:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: Emacs mailing list To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 10 17:42:27 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1d8Tkw-0000ZS-59 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 17:42:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43363 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8Tl1-0004k0-Fe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 11:42:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45152) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8TjN-00042v-Tj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 11:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8TjN-0006uv-8d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 11:40:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33223) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8TjK-0006t4-FC; Wed, 10 May 2017 11:40:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1d8TjJ-0003m4-Nn; Wed, 10 May 2017 11:40:45 -0400 X-Spook: Mexican army LABLINK BATF Blowfish Home grown TB Artistic X-Ran: @CV6m^9e4SGZ>6/}4IuWE|:-_+HPe8X_^(I=f#y!eu_wcO?l22?l+$,C)E3V|dxtNODBm] X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87vap9osbl.fsf@drachen> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Wed, 10 May 2017 13:38:06 +0200") 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: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112988 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen wrote: > 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).