From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Make fails Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 01:24:32 -0400 Message-ID: <87ha1jr433.fsf@yeeloong.lan> References: <20140806081029.GA13111@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42048) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XGi6x-0006G0-21 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 01:25:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XGi6q-00047a-OP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 01:25:34 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([96.39.62.75]:45762) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XGi6q-00047V-Jn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 01:25:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140806081029.GA13111@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Wed, 6 Aug 2014 10:10:29 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge writes: > currently I get the following error when configuring and compiling guix > from git: > > make: *** No rule to make target 'gnu/system/os-config.tmpl', needed by 'doc/os-config.texi'. Stop. > > Does anyone know what happens? A file missing in a commit? I ran into the same problem. Turns out that "make clean" deletes os-config.tmpl. In my case I used "git reset --hard" to restore it, but beware that also blows away any changes you've made to your working directory that haven't yet been committed. Mark