From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Upgrading Emacs from Git Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 02:55:37 +0100 Message-ID: <87vb5wf1t2.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <877ficrhj6.fsf@mbork.pl> <83bn7obhm4.fsf@gnu.org> <878u2sv34z.fsf@wanadoo.es> <8760xw131z.fsf@debian.uxu> <87mvr8t4y6.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455155770 19563 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2016 01:56:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 01:56:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 11 02:56:01 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aTgUC-0003VO-Pa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 02:56:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45202 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTgUC-0000xw-2L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:56:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52947) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTgU0-0000xc-N5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:55:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTgTw-0004Gp-JU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:55:48 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33985) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTgTw-0004Gk-Cm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:55:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aTgTv-0003Ey-1Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 02:55:43 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-227.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 02:55:43 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-227.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 02:55:43 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-227.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NlbR4a+tlgdAvq/+ge9LpGmK23k= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109098 Archived-At: Óscar Fuentes writes: >> What do you do if that fails as well? > > In the directory that contains the git checkout > execute: > > git clean -f -d -x > > That ensures that you are using a pristine source > directory. Then > > make > > If that fails, then the build is broken due to some > erroneous change made by the developers. Wait one day > or two, "git pull" again, repeat the build process. > If the build is still broken, on Emacs do > > M-x report-emacs-bug > > including details about your setup (compiler, library > versions, etc) and the output of the build at the > failure point. > > It is possible to check out a previous vesion (one day > ago, for instance) instead of waiting for a fix > upstream, but that requires and slightly more > complicated git usage. Case closed :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573