Re: make fails for Gnu Elpa

[Noam Postavsky]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Michael Heerdegen
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Jackson Ray Hamilton <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Sorry about that.  The GNUmakefile is supposed to not compile that
>> file.  I've just pushed another patch in that area; will you pull and
>> see if the issue still occurs?
>
> Yes, still occurs.
>
>> That doesn't happen on my system (Debian 8).  Can you also please
>> describe your system?
>
> Debian testing (mostly).  make is from testing, version 4.1-9.

I think the problem is that the file arguments to tar have to go after
the other options. Changing directory doesn't seem needed.

~/src/emacs/elpa$ pt=packages/context-coloring
~/src/emacs/elpa$ tar -cvh $pt/*.el -X $pt/.elpaignore > /dev/null
packages/context-coloring/context-coloring-benchmark.el
packages/context-coloring/context-coloring-coverage.el
packages/context-coloring/context-coloring.el
packages/context-coloring/context-coloring-emacs-lisp.el
packages/context-coloring/context-coloring-javascript.el
packages/context-coloring/context-coloring-test.el
~/src/emacs/elpa$ tar -cvh -X $pt/.elpaignore $pt/*.el > /dev/null
packages/context-coloring/context-coloring.el
packages/context-coloring/context-coloring-emacs-lisp.el
packages/context-coloring/context-coloring-javascript.el
~/src/emacs/elpa$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.29
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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