Re: Failure During make on Mac OS X 10.2.1

[Andrew Choi]

> Howdy,
> 
> While attempting to compile Emacs from CVS tonight (downloaded about 
> half an hour ago), I got this error:
> 
> /usr/lib/libncurses.dylib(lib_termcap.o) definition of _UP
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target 
> `/usr/local/src/emacs/src/../lisp/abbrev.elc', needed by `../etc/DOC'.  
> Stop.
> make: *** [src] Error 2
> 
> So, uh, how do I make it go again?
> 
> TIA!
> 
> David
> 
> PS: Please reply to me directly, as I am not subscribed to the list.
> 
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> David Wheeler                                     AIM: dwTheory
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Hi David,

It doesn't seem that you're doing a `make bootstrap' at the top-level
directory while you got this error message.  Otherwise lisp/abbrev.elc
would have already been created.  The top-level Makefile will not try
to create ../etc/DOC before that happens.

Are you in fact doing a `make bootstrap' when you got the above
messages?  If not, can you please try doing that.

One thing to try is running `make extraclean; ./configure
<...whatever...>; make bootstrap'.  If the same thing happens, please
send a few more lines (say 50) at the end of the build.

General help requests like this one are probably more suitable for the
USENET newsgroup gnu.emacs.help than emacs-devel.

Andrew.