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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 9459@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9459: 24.0.50; Condigure aborts, complains about missing install.sh in build-aux.
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:46:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk49jq010.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E67BA54.7060806@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:39:16 -0700")

>> would it be possible to have "make" spit out "Compilation failed;
>> have you tried running ./autogen.sh before reporting this as a bug?" if
>> building fails?

> Sure.  Or "make" could simply fall back on autogen.sh
> if the current approach fails.  That would be just as fast as
> now, in the normal case where the build works, and it would have
> addressed Jan's problem I expect.  How about something like this?

I much prefer a message, since the failure may be due to too
many things.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-08  1:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-07 16:18 bug#9459: 24.0.50; Condigure aborts, complains about missing install.sh in build-aux Jan Djärv
2011-09-07 16:26 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-07 16:38   ` bug#9459: 24.0.50; Configure " Jan Djärv
2011-09-07 16:44 ` bug#9459: 24.0.50; Condigure " Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-07 18:00   ` Paul Eggert
2011-09-07 18:15   ` Paul Eggert
2011-09-07 18:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-07 18:24       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-07 18:39         ` Paul Eggert
2011-09-08  1:46           ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-09-08 16:25             ` Paul Eggert
2011-09-08 16:30               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-08 17:04                 ` Paul Eggert

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