From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:09:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87lkn1tzav.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87wt6ka3ij.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ejssjhh0.fsf@furball.mit.edu> <878xiysrf7.fsf@furball.mit.edu> <87fyd5ihod.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162267806 22928 80.91.229.2 (31 Oct 2006 04:10:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:10:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 31 05:10:04 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gekwu-0006nu-6M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:10:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gekwt-0002NL-Mo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:10:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gekwg-0002MP-GN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:09:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gekwe-0002Ky-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:09:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gekwd-0002Kv-RM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:09:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.73] (helo=heller.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gekwd-0001Ic-I9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:09:47 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-5-161.inter.net.il [80.230.5.161]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id AVZ99604 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:09:44 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Chong Yidong In-reply-to: <87fyd5ihod.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:04:50 -0500) 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:61455 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Chong Yidong > Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:04:50 -0500 > > I wonder if this is related to the problem reported by Martin Ebourne > in the thread "Small fix to configure.in in > CVS". He said: > > > > The problem I had was that I was building to a prefix directory that > > > included the word 'linux'. The emacs configure was preprocessing the > > > Makefile through the C preprocessor, and this was substituting > > > 'linux' to 1, thus making all the paths invalid. But in my case, there's no `linux' in the directory's prefix, and I don't think any of the paths are invalid, or I'd see a much more noisy failures. > I haven't checked in the patch he supplied yet, since I was trying to > figure out whether the problem really exists. However, if the patch > fixes the problem for you, I guess we should check it in. I think I need to understand exactly why ld fails, because this looks like a Heisenbug: seemingly innocent changes make it disappear.