Re: arpack: no rule to make target `arpack/src/dnaupe.f' ?

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> 2011/12/21 Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
>> 
>> On Dec 21, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> 
>>> On 21 December 2011 16:33, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> I noticed I was unable to "hg update" due a problem with the gnulib 
>>>> subrepo.
>>> 
>>> I don't know if you're feeling in the mood for it, but if you could
>>> report what happened, it may be useful for the bug report you linked
>>> to. I'm talking to Matt Mackall (hg's lead dev) in IRC, and he seems
>>> mildly interesting in the details of the problem.
>> 
>> My xterm doesn't save enough info to preserve the build process, so I've 
>> lost the actual error. But I was able to check my browser's history to see 
>> what I had cut-n-pasted into google.
>> 
>> The part I searched for was ...
>> 
>>        "abort repository [git]git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib not found"
> 
> Huh, the gnulib repo might have been offline at the time you attempted
> that, so hg refused to update because it couldn't update the gnulib
> subrepo to the state it should have been in. That should just leave
> your working directory with a bunch of intermediate changes. If you
> try to update again, it will refuse because there are changes in your
> working directory. You can wait until the gnulib repo is back online,
> and tell hg to attempt to update again and overwrite changes in the
> current working directory with "hg update --clean".
> 
> I hope this isn't too confusing.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.

I was able to "git pull" from my gnulib archive I had been using previously.

Does that mean anything?

In any event, I can't duplicate the problem, so I happy to drop it for now.

If I encounter it again, I'll let you know.

Ben