Re: Emacs build failure

[Pavel Janík]

   From: address@hidden (Kai Großjohann)
   Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 10:06:21 +0100

   > I always use the same script to build Emacs.  The script starts with
   > "make distclean", then invokes autoconf, configure, and make.
   > 
   > The compilation aborts with the following error:

[...]

   > | make[1]: *** No rule to make target 
`/home-local/grossjoh/work/gnu/emacs/src/../lisp/custom.elc', needed by 
`../etc/DOC'.  Stop.
   > | make[1]: Leaving directory `/home-local/grossjoh/work/gnu/emacs/src'
   > | make: *** [src] Error 2

Eli suggested possible problem and solution, but shouldn't we stop right
after the problem itself rather then waiting to confuse users here?
-- 
Pavel Janík

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