From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Current head won't build Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:04:21 +0900 Message-ID: <87ocf8d84q.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87iq5py7xk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <868w6kxk6l.fsf_-_@red.stonehenge.com> <8739wsmaey.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <86wru4w06x.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <87typ8aux2.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <86ocfgvwks.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <87631l4o2y.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <86ocfcwdsc.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <86hbl4w3kd.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <87d3vsdr1s.fsf@imladris.arda> <868w6gvzqf.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <87r5k7lkqe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k4pzkvy3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87aaqslvt2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276852046 7127 80.91.229.12 (18 Jun 2010 09:07:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:07:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Randal L. Schwartz" , Teemu Likonen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 18 11:07:24 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPXXi-00011E-5F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:07:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36610 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPXXh-0008Q6-D4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:07:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58603 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OPXXa-0008Kr-HA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:07:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPXXZ-0005G8-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:07:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:37775) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPXXY-0005Fr-Pu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:07:09 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4C78213; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:07:07 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F30401A3E22; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:04:21 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" a03421eb562b XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126140 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab writes: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > > > Andreas Schwab writes: > > > > > What is bootstrap supposed to do with the unconfigured tree? > > > > Tell the user to run ./configure. > > IOW, your "solution" is guaranteed to fail. No, actually, it works fine for me. I've always done re-bootstraps that way (admittedly, I've never tried a naked "make bootstrap" in Emacs, I just use a script adapted from my XEmacs habits, which has never had bootstrap target, although make beta comes close nowadays). My customary configure options are embedded in the script, which does # code to assemble configure options in OPTIONS ln -sf beta.err.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` beta.err if test -e Makefile; then make distclean; fi ../configure >beta.err 2>&1 $OPTIONS \ && make bootstrap >>beta.err 2>&1 Except that the user might not have saved off his configure line, I really don't understand what the objection to distclean is. It's not like the configure step takes 10 times as much time as "make bootstrap" itself does!