Re: Spurious "file errors" when making master

[martin rudalics]

> Yes, that's how it works for me.  If I try the attached debugging patch, 
'make' chatters as follows:
>
> Loading leim/leim-list.el (source)...
> emacs-repository--version-git-1 
/home/eggert/src/gnu/emacs/static-checking/.git/HEAD 
/home/eggert/src/gnu/emacs/static-checking/.git
> emacs-repository--version-git-1 
/home/eggert/src/gnu/emacs/static-checking/.git/refs/heads/master 
/home/eggert/src/gnu/emacs/static-checking/.git
> Finding pointers to doc strings...
> Finding pointers to doc strings...done
>
> which is what I'd expect: git does not get executed. Martin, can you 
investigate why git is executed in your case?

I have some 10 separate sub-directories in my emacs directories each for
the builds of the corresponding toolkit (Gtk, lucid, motif, ...).  These
are not tracked by git.  Could that be the cause?  The messages printed
by your patch are:

emacs-repository--version-git-1 /home/martin/emacs-git/release/.git/HEAD 
/home/martin/emacs-git/release/.git
emacs-repository--version-git-1 
/home/martin/emacs-git/release/.git/refs/heads/master 
/home/martin/emacs-git/release/.git

martin