From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: make bootstrap fails Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:46:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334105213 2339 80.91.229.3 (11 Apr 2012 00:46:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:46:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 11 02:46:52 2012 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 1SHlhy-0005wM-FV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:46:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44068 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHlhx-00033E-LS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:46:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50843) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHlhs-00032w-Jc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:46:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHlhq-0005Ua-Qt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:46:44 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.143.162]:63243) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHlhq-0005UN-MX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:46:42 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApYIACxOgk+4rwGW/2dsb2JhbABDuCMDgQyBCIIJAQEBAQIBAQJTKAsLNBIUFAQNUoduBQu2J4thgVWDJASTQIM9jUiBXYMD X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,391,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="173171906" Original-Received: from 184-175-1-150.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([184.175.1.150]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 10 Apr 2012 20:46:41 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E955159460; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:46:40 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:54:51 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.143.162 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:84416 Archived-At: >>> Running bzr status --no-classify dired.el...FAILED (status 4) >> >> Please report it as a bug. It might be triggered by a problematic >> installation of Bzr or something else, but Emacs's build should not fail >> just because it can't determine the VC status of a file. > The simple solution is just to disable all vc backends while building > (not like they can do anything at all except cause a slow-down), as > previously suggested: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-08/msg00461.html > However there was some opposition to the idea. As explained back then: if it's a problem while building Emacs, there's no reason to think it won't be a problem in other use cases. So it should be fixed the right way, rather than swept under the carpet. Stefan