Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61

[Eric S. Raymond]

Miles Bader <address@hidden>:
> "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:
> > I have been unable to work on vc.el for about *two weeks* now because
> > the recommended "make maintainer-clean; configure; make bootstrap"
> > consistently fails with this:
> 
> It never occurred to you to _say something_ during those "two weeks"?

I have other things I'm working on.  I'd hit the wall, think "Usual breakage,
somebody will get it just like the previous times", and go do something else.

Two weeks of breakage got to be a bit much.  I was about ready to ship a loud
complaint when the build system thread happened.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>