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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