Re: Trunk: Build error on FreeBSD

[Herbert J. Skuhra]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 02:33:19 -0700
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 09/15/2012 01:44 AM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:> Hi,
> 
> > % ./configure
> > % find . -name "epaths.h"
> > ./src/epaths.h
> > % gmake bootstrap
> > [...]
> > gmake[2]: *** No rule to make target `epaths.h', needed by `xfns.o'.  Stop.
> > gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/herbert/source/emacs/trunk/src'
> 
> On Fedora 17, 'gmake bootstrap' does delete src/epaths.h
> as part of the 'bootstrap-clean' action, but it goes on
> to recreate it as part of './config.status --recheck' or
> './configure'.  Can you investigate why the latter doesn't
> occur for you?  Perhaps append '&& find . -name epaths.h'
> to the MAKE_CONFIG_STATUS macro definition.

The command

${MAKE-make} MAKEFILE_NAME=do-not-make-Makefile epaths-force

fails if run from config.status:

creating src/epaths.h
make: don't know how to make wd. Stop

If I replace ${MAKE-make} with gmake in configure 'gmake bootstrap'
works.

-- 
Herbert