Re: make fails during Emacs build process

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:21:10 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote: 

TZ> I submitted an Emacs bug for this, but it may be a Make issue instead.
TZ> Take a look at the thread:

TZ> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/18146/focus=97922

TZ> basically I'm able to take a dependency off a target and everything
TZ> works mysteriously.  It may be related to the number of files in the
TZ> dependency (it's a variable with every lisp/*/*.el file).  I don't see
TZ> any clues from make -d or make -p.  I've posted all the logs and
TZ> circumstances in the thread but would be happy to explain further.

Can anyone suggest ways to find out why Make is not finding the rules
that work for others?  What kind of debugging outside of -d and -p can I
do?

Thanks
Ted