Re: Problem with make

[Colin Campbell]

On 11-09-21 11:06 AM, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 05:13:00PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > On my fast build system, I can't currently get a successful make.
> > Abort changes, pull, clean build directory.  The build ends with:
> ...
> > As you see, the problem is a missing AUTHORS.texi.  The odd thing is
> > that on previous make runs, I get
> yep, happens about 10% of the time for me.  Running "make" again
> fixes it.  (almost always -- the chance of two failing runs is
> about 1%.  That's happened twice to me that I can recall)
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
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I had the problem a day or so ago, Phil. I ended up completely nuking 
/lilypond-git and using lily-git to restart.  I didn't have a recent 
enough tarball to be worth simply copying the file over, as a test.  The 
nuke to bare metal seems to have done it.  The truly wierd thing, now 
that I recall a bit more in detail, was that I couldn't find a trace of 
AUTHORS.texi using git cola or gitg.  Of course, I may have been 
searching for a misspelling, but even browsing in tree mode didn't show 
me anything.

Cheers,
Colin

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