From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 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 19:22:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvxzxspv.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171112180959.GB20916@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 12 Nov 2017 18:09:59 +0000")
On Nov 12 2017, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> Hello, Emacs.
>
> I'm attempting to check out a moderately old version of Emacs with:
>
> $ git checkout 10c0e1c
>
> . This appears to work. I then attempt to build it with:
>
> $ time make -j17 bootstrap
>
> . This fails with:
>
> make: *** No rule to make target 'lib/gnulib.mk.in', needed by 'Makefile'. Stop.
>
> . It would appear that the git checkout has failed to restore the state
> of the given commit, in that it hasn't restored the indicated file. Is
> this in fact the case?
Makefile and a lot of other files aren't tracked, so they cannot be
restored in any way. You need to rerun autogen.sh.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-12 18:22 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2017-11-12 18:24 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-11-12 18:25 ` Lele Gaifax
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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