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Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61
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Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61 |
Date: |
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:20:37 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:
>> OK. I have an utterly standard, if somewhat old, GNU/Linux box, probably
>> the most popular setup. I think it's reasonable to expect the trunk to
>> build on my box nearly all the time. Possibly on w32, too.
>
> I agree with this complaint, and I'm getting extremely frustrated. I
> have been unable to work on vc.el for about *two weeks* now because
> the recommended "make maintainer-clean; configure; make bootstrap"
> consistently fails with this:
>
> make[3]: *** No rule to make target
> `/home/esr/cvs/emacs/lisp/nxml/nxml-enc.elc', needed by `compile-main'. Stop.
>
> This is on stock Ubuntu 8.04. Whoever said expecting builds in CVS to
> work consistently was "hopelessly unrealistic" is simply revealing that the
> Emacs system is broken as designed. Maybe this is a *reason* we have so
> few developers?
I haven't encountered this problem, and I'm using the same system. Try
updating using `cvs up -Pd'.
- Re: use git, not cvs, (continued)
- Re: use git, not cvs, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/10
- Re: use git, not cvs, Miles Bader, 2008/06/10
- Re: use git, not cvs, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/10
- Re: use git, not cvs, Miles Bader, 2008/06/10
- Re: use git, not cvs, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/10
- Re: use git, not cvs, Jim Meyering, 2008/06/10
- Re: use git, not cvs, Jim Meyering, 2008/06/10
- Re: use git, not cvs, Nick Roberts, 2008/06/10
- Re: use git, not cvs, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/10
- Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61, Eric S. Raymond, 2008/06/07
Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61,
Chong Yidong <=
Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61, Miles Bader, 2008/06/07
Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/07
- Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61, Eric S. Raymond, 2008/06/07
- Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/07
- Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61, Eric S. Raymond, 2008/06/07
- Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61, Thomas Lord, 2008/06/07