Re: bootstrap difficulties

[Micah Cowan]

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Eric Blake wrote:
> Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
> 
>>> ./bootstrap: cp ._bootmp/lib/alloca.c lib/alloca.c # with edits
>>> mv: cannot move `lib/alloca.c-t' to `lib/alloca.c': No such file or 
> directory
>> That's odd.
>> I've been unable to reproduce that so far.
>> I've tried both in a pre-used working directory
>> and in one I'd just cloned.
>>
>> But I did hit the missing uniwidth/ failure, which I finally fixed.
>> Was the above in a freshly-cloned directory?
> 
> No; pre-existing.  However, I didn't have much in it, so I just nuked 
> the ._bootmp* and lib directories, tried bootstrap again, and things started 
> working.  Oh well; I'll just chalk it up to stale state.

bootstrap should still address that situation, though.

But: was the previous installation a CVS one? That would seem to explain
it, since the CVS source that bootstrap was using until the recent
modifications was no longer being updated.

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Micah J. Cowan
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