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Re: autogen.sh fails


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: Re: autogen.sh fails
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 11:40:45 -0400
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

> I wanted to switch from master to emacs-25.  I checked out the emacs-25
> branch, I don't have any changes in the worktree.

The Emacs build-tree doesn't react well to switching in-place with
existing build products between two revisions that are far apart.
You should either make maintainer-clean before you switch, or git clean
after you switch, or use a separate directory for each branch (eg git
new-workdir).



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