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Re: 23.0.60; Bootstrap failure
From: |
Bob Rogers |
Subject: |
Re: 23.0.60; Bootstrap failure |
Date: |
Sun, 6 Apr 2008 18:19:01 -0400 |
From: David Hansen <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:06:26 +0200
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 16:58:24 -0400 Bob Rogers wrote:
> This is in trunk, right? IIUC, address@hidden is for
> reporting bugs in pre-release versions.
I used M-x report-emacs-bug
AFAIK emacs-pretest-bug is now an alias for emacs-devel
And INSTALL.CVS even says the following:
Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of
Emacs should be sent to address@hidden rather than
gnu.emacs.help or gnu.emacs.bug.
So I was wrong.
> That said, I saw the same problem, but doing:
>
> make maintainer-clean
> ./configure
> make bootstrap
>
> cleared it up.
Thanks. I think it's not the first time I read this advice. Should we
add a note to INSTALL.CVS?
David
Good idea. How about the attached?
-- Bob
Index: INSTALL.CVS
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/INSTALL.CVS,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -r1.12 INSTALL.CVS
--- INSTALL.CVS 8 Jan 2008 20:46:39 -0000 1.12
+++ INSTALL.CVS 6 Apr 2008 22:17:43 -0000
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@
$ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs
If either of the above partial procedures fails, try "make bootstrap".
+If "make bootstrap" fails, which does happen on occasion, you will
+need to do "make distclean" or "make maintainer-clean" and then rerun
+./configure before doing "make bootstrap".
Users of non-Posix systems (MS-Windows etc.) should run the
platform-specific configuration scripts (nt/configure.bat, config.bat,