From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problem with building Emacs diagnosed. Help please! Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:53:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20080802101239.GA3890@muc.de> <01ljze53ie.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20080804170517.GA17959@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218236101 13440 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2008 22:55:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 22:55:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 09 00:55:53 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KRasC-000119-Gm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:55:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44774 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRarG-0000TF-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:54:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRarC-0000Sz-UO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:54:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRarB-0000RA-Lw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:54:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33709 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRarB-0000Qn-As for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:54:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:59137) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KRarB-0001TP-4x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:54:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KRaq4-0007ZR-3L; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:53:40 -0400 X-Spook: president Qaddafi mindwar New World Order AVIP Aldergrove X-Ran: t'xr (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:05:17 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102221 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I am not prepared to check out the sources from scratch every time I > can't get a build working. I didn't mean that. I meant that you seem at the moment to have gotten into a very weird state somehow, and rather than trying to figure it out, it would be easier to throw it away and start again. If you get into the weird state again, then it makes more sense to investigate it. But for some hopefully transient, never-repeatable glitch, why bother? (Perhaps the "emacs" that your build invokes to make the autoloads is messed up somehow, or it finds the wrong one somehow.) I update and build from CVS every day and almost never see build failures, and they are always rapidly fixed. I'm sure the same is true for others.