Re: Build failure for Emacs master

[Angelo Graziosi]

Il 14/04/2016 03:31, Paul Eggert ha scritto:
> On 04/13/2016 03:00 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> > './autogen.sh all' does not work using
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/snapshot/emacs-master.tar.gz as
> > source:
>
> That's a different approach from what's in INSTALL.REPO. INSTALL.REPO

In MSYS2 and other OS there are *-git packages just to have the last 
development source not because that people aims to develop and maintain 
the applications of those packages..

So even when Emacs source comes from git you should not need other 
option for autogen.sh...

> assumes you're building from a Git clone; among other things, that's why
> INSTALL.REPO requires that you have Git installed. Since you're using a
> strategy that does not involve Git, a different procedure is called for.
>
> './autogen.sh all' can be adjusted to work for your use case. I
> installed the attached patch, which attempts to do that. Please give it
> a try.

Maybe when I have some time..