Re: Git help please - checking out old commit doesn't find lib/gnulib.mk.in.

[Andreas Schwab]

On Nov 12 2017, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello, Emacs.
>
> I'm attempting to check out a moderately old version of Emacs with:
>
>     $ git checkout 10c0e1c
>
> .  This appears to work.  I then attempt to build it with:
>
>     $ time make -j17 bootstrap
>
> .  This fails with:
>
>     make: *** No rule to make target 'lib/gnulib.mk.in', needed by 
> 'Makefile'.  Stop.
>
> .  It would appear that the git checkout has failed to restore the state
> of the given commit, in that it hasn't restored the indicated file.  Is
> this in fact the case?

Makefile and a lot of other files aren't tracked, so they cannot be
restored in any way.  You need to rerun autogen.sh.

Andreas.

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