Failure During make on Mac OS X 10.2.1

Failure During make on Mac OS X 10.2.1

[David Wheeler]

Howdy,

While attempting to compile Emacs from CVS tonight (downloaded about 
half an hour ago), I got this error:

/usr/lib/libncurses.dylib(lib_termcap.o) definition of _UP
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 
`/usr/local/src/emacs/src/../lisp/abbrev.elc', needed by `../etc/DOC'.  
Stop.
make: *** [src] Error 2

So, uh, how do I make it go again?

TIA!

David

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Re: Failure During make on Mac OS X 10.2.1

[Andrew Choi]

> Howdy,
> 
> While attempting to compile Emacs from CVS tonight (downloaded about 
> half an hour ago), I got this error:
> 
> /usr/lib/libncurses.dylib(lib_termcap.o) definition of _UP
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target 
> `/usr/local/src/emacs/src/../lisp/abbrev.elc', needed by `../etc/DOC'.  
> Stop.
> make: *** [src] Error 2
> 
> So, uh, how do I make it go again?
> 
> TIA!
> 
> David
> 
> PS: Please reply to me directly, as I am not subscribed to the list.
> 
> -- 
> David Wheeler                                     AIM: dwTheory
> david@wheeler.net                                 ICQ: 15726394
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Hi David,

It doesn't seem that you're doing a `make bootstrap' at the top-level
directory while you got this error message.  Otherwise lisp/abbrev.elc
would have already been created.  The top-level Makefile will not try
to create ../etc/DOC before that happens.

Are you in fact doing a `make bootstrap' when you got the above
messages?  If not, can you please try doing that.

One thing to try is running `make extraclean; ./configure
<...whatever...>; make bootstrap'.  If the same thing happens, please
send a few more lines (say 50) at the end of the build.

General help requests like this one are probably more suitable for the
USENET newsgroup gnu.emacs.help than emacs-devel.

Andrew.

Re: Failure During make on Mac OS X 10.2.1

[David Wheeler]

On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 08:52  PM, Andrew Choi wrote:

> It doesn't seem that you're doing a `make bootstrap' at the top-level
> directory while you got this error message.  Otherwise lisp/abbrev.elc
> would have already been created.  The top-level Makefile will not try
> to create ../etc/DOC before that happens.

Oh.

> Are you in fact doing a `make bootstrap' when you got the above
> messages?  If not, can you please try doing that.

No, I didn't 'make bootstrap'. Perhaps mac/INSTALL should be updated to 
specify that this must be done. It seems to suggest that 'make 
bootstrap' is optional. Or does this only apply because the sources are 
from CVS rather than a release distribution?

> One thing to try is running `make extraclean; ./configure
> <...whatever...>; make bootstrap'.  If the same thing happens, please
> send a few more lines (say 50) at the end of the build.

I'll try it now.

> General help requests like this one are probably more suitable for the
> USENET newsgroup gnu.emacs.help than emacs-devel.

Do people still use usenet? ;-)

Regards,

David

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