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| author | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2017-05-06 16:20:57 -0400 |
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| committer | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2017-05-06 16:28:54 -0400 |
| commit | 5772b920f40a8c9f0a5266caf8d0f4729f6d2c13 (patch) | |
| tree | 7b30fceb89cb1bf3c6e310b3c4ce4e1823735fba /INSTALL.REPO | |
| parent | b104d764216026d77680a79993a051725e5ab94c (diff) | |
| download | emacs-5772b920f40a8c9f0a5266caf8d0f4729f6d2c13.tar.gz | |
; INSTALL.REPO: Mention cases that 'make bootstrap' can't handle (Bug#26246).
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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.REPO | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.REPO b/INSTALL.REPO index 1b56b0b9347..ce346bb246c 100644 --- a/INSTALL.REPO +++ b/INSTALL.REPO @@ -50,8 +50,21 @@ To update loaddefs.el (and similar files), do: $ make autoloads If either of the above partial procedures fails, try 'make bootstrap'. -If CPU time is not an issue, 'make bootstrap' is the most thorough way -to rebuild, and avoid any spurious problems. +If CPU time is not an issue, 'make bootstrap' is a more thorough way +to rebuild, avoiding spurious problems. + +Occasionally, there are changes that 'make bootstrap' won't be able to +handle. The most thorough cleaning can be achieved by 'git clean -fx' +which will leave you with only files from the git repository. Here +are some faster methods for a couple of particular error cases: + + /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:9: cannot open `m4/count-leading-zeros.m4': No such file or directory + +This can be fixed with 'rm aclocal.m4'. + + make: *** No rule to make target 'lib/Makefile.am', needed by 'lib/Makefile.in' + +This can be fixed with 'rm lib/Makefile Makefile'. Because the repository version of Emacs is a work in progress, it will sometimes fail to build. Please wait a day or so (and check the |