Re: where to report bootstrap bugs?

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

  > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:14:25 +0100 Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote: 
  > 
  > MA> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
  > >> Is there a more appropriate place to ask about `make bootstrap' problems
  > >> from a CVS checkout, if emacs-devel is not it?
  > >> 
  > >> After 1.5 months since I submitted a problem report to emacs-devel (I
  > >> can't do a bug report because the bootstrap won't build) I haven't heard
  > >> anything.  While I may be the only one having the problem, my Ubuntu
  > >> installation is hardly unusual so other users could be running into this
  > >> as well.
  > 
  > MA> I don't remember your report, but from time to time I need a "make
  > MA> distclean; ./configure; make bootstrap". Maybe this is sufficient for
  > MA> you as well?  I'm also running Ubuntu.
  > 
  > I thought I was going crazy, so I did this, plus a clean checkout to a
  > completely new directory...  Nothing worked.  I traced the problem to a
  > test in fileio.c, and I wonder if it's a system library issue.  See my
  > report, which I reposted.

You can try compiling with -O0 to try exclude compiler bugs...