Re: Problem compiling GNU/emacs from cvs

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-04-11 20:34 +0200, David Hansen wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:05:00 -0500 Adolfo De Unanue wrote:
>
>> I tried to compile Emacs from cvs and failed in the make bootstrap:
>
> ,----[ INSTALL.CVS ]
> |
> | Very occasionally changes in the source can introduce
> | incompatibilities with previous builds.  If a bootstrap fails, as a
> | last resort try "make maintainer-clean" before bootstrapping again.
> | If CPU time is not an issue, the most thorough way to rebuild, and
> | avoid any spurious problems, is always to use "make maintainer-clean;
> | make bootstrap".
> |
> `----
>
> give make maintainer-clean && make bootstrap a try

Neither that nor "make maintainer-clean; make bootstrap" can possibly
work, because there is no Makefile after "make maintainer-clean". 8-)
You have to rerun ./configure inbetween.

Sven