bootstrap failed

bootstrap failed

[Zhang Wei]

Fresh checked out cvs trunk, make bootstrap always failed due to the following Error:

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if [ x`(cd /root/emacs-cvs/leim && /bin/pwd)` = x`(/bin/pwd)` ] ; then \
          EMACSLOADPATH=/root/emacs-cvs/leim/../lisp ../src/emacs -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l 
/root/emacs-cvs/leim/../lisp/international/quail \
            --eval "(update-leim-list-file \".\")" ; \
        else \
          EMACSLOADPATH=/root/emacs-cvs/leim/../lisp ../src/emacs -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l 
/root/emacs-cvs/leim/../lisp/international/quail \
            --eval "(update-leim-list-file \".\" \"/root/emacs-cvs/leim\")" ; \
        fi
Loading subst-jis...
Loading subst-ksc...
Loading subst-big5...
Loading subst-gb2312...
Updating /root/emacs-cvs/leim/leim-list.el ...
Loading vc-arch...
Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
make[3]: *** [leim-list.el] Error 255
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/emacs-cvs/leim'
make[2]: *** [leim] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/emacs-cvs'
make[1]: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/emacs-cvs'
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2

Re: bootstrap failed

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-02-22 18:57, Zhang Wei <id.brep@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fresh checked out cvs trunk, make bootstrap always failed due
> to the following Error:

Is this from a clean checkout?  I've reinstalled Emacs this morning from
CVS with -D '2006/02/23 07:40:25 UTC' being the last change that went in.

No problems seen here.  Can you tell us more of your build environment,
the compiler you used, any interesting options, etc.?

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> if [ x`(cd /root/emacs-cvs/leim && /bin/pwd)` = x`(/bin/pwd)` ] ; then \
>           EMACSLOADPATH=/root/emacs-cvs/leim/../lisp ../src/emacs -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l
> /root/emacs-cvs/leim/../lisp/international/quail \
>             --eval "(update-leim-list-file \".\")" ; \
>         else \
>           EMACSLOADPATH=/root/emacs-cvs/leim/../lisp ../src/emacs -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l
> /root/emacs-cvs/leim/../lisp/international/quail \
>             --eval "(update-leim-list-file \".\" \"/root/emacs-cvs/leim\")" ; \
>         fi
> Loading subst-jis...
> Loading subst-ksc...
> Loading subst-big5...
> Loading subst-gb2312...
> Updating /root/emacs-cvs/leim/leim-list.el ...
> Loading vc-arch...
> Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
> make[3]: *** [leim-list.el] Error 255
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/emacs-cvs/leim'
> make[2]: *** [leim] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/emacs-cvs'
> make[1]: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/emacs-cvs'
> make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2

Re: bootstrap failed

[Zhang Wei]

Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

> Is this from a clean checkout?  I've reinstalled Emacs this morning from
> CVS with -D '2006/02/23 07:40:25 UTC' being the last change that went in.
>
> No problems seen here.  Can you tell us more of your build environment,
> the compiler you used, any interesting options, etc.?
>

Yes it was a clean checkout. I just installed debian on a new box, and
build emacs with the following command:

# apt-get build-dep emacs-snapshot
# cd emacs-cvs
# ./configure CFLAGS=-g --with-gtk && make bootstrap

# gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.0.3 20051201 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-5)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

After the bootstrap failure, I've installed some other packages. Then
bootstrap again and succeed. No problems now. The problem has gone. I
googled for the error message and found the same problem has been
reproted before. It's a quite strange problem.

Re: bootstrap failed

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-02-23 20:19, Zhang Wei <id.brep@gmail.com> wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:
>> Is this from a clean checkout?  I've reinstalled Emacs this morning from
>> CVS with -D '2006/02/23 07:40:25 UTC' being the last change that went in.
>>
>> No problems seen here.  Can you tell us more of your build environment,
>> the compiler you used, any interesting options, etc.?
>>
>
> Yes it was a clean checkout. I just installed debian on a new box, and
> build emacs with the following command:
>
> # apt-get build-dep emacs-snapshot
> # cd emacs-cvs
> # ./configure CFLAGS=-g --with-gtk && make bootstrap
>
> # gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.0.3 20051201 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-5)
> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> After the bootstrap failure, I've installed some other packages. Then
> bootstrap again and succeed. No problems now. The problem has gone. I
> googled for the error message and found the same problem has been
> reproted before. It's a quite strange problem.

I'm not sure what apt-get fetches, so I can't help you there.  I usually
check out the sources from CVS.  What you saw may be a problem that is
caused by practically anything from the time something is committed,
until apt-get downloads its :-/

Re: bootstrap failed

[Zhang Wei]

Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

> I'm not sure what apt-get fetches, so I can't help you there.  I usually
> check out the sources from CVS.  What you saw may be a problem that is
> caused by practically anything from the time something is committed,
> until apt-get downloads its :-/

I just use apt-get to install some libraries that is needed while
building emacs, such as libungif libpng libxpm and something like
that. But I checked out the Emacs source from arch, not with apt-get.

Re: bootstrap failed

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Zhang Wei <id.brep@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:19:16 +0800
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> After the bootstrap failure, I've installed some other packages. Then
> bootstrap again and succeed.

What ``other packages'' were those?  I think it's important to know
this.

Re: bootstrap failed

[Zhang Wei]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> What ``other packages'' were those?  I think it's important to know
> this.

Can't reproduce this problem now. Sorry for that. So many packages had
been installed. I was configuring a new debian linux box then.

Re: bootstrap failed

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Zhang Wei <id.brep@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:21:09 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > What ``other packages'' were those?  I think it's important to know
> > this.
> 
> Can't reproduce this problem now. Sorry for that. So many packages had
> been installed. I was configuring a new debian linux box then.

But the package installation logs and the time stamp of the built
Emacs should give you enough data to find out what packages were
installed between the last failure and the first success, no?  If so,
please post the list of those packages, even if it's long.  There
might be a problem there which we need to find and solve.

TIA

Re: bootstrap failed

[Richard Stallman]

    Can't reproduce this problem now. Sorry for that. So many packages had
    been installed. I was configuring a new debian linux box then.

You're talking about a variant of the GNU system.  We are part of the
GNU Project, which developed the GNU system.  To call it "Linux" is
unfair to us.  Please don't call the system "Linux".

See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html for more explanation.