Re: Yet another bootstrap failure: Required feature `esh-groups' was not provided

[Vinicius Jose Latorre]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Emacs!
>
> Yet another bootstrap failure:
>
> Friday 2006-06-06, ~15:00 UCT
> % cvs update
> % ./configure --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no
> % make bootstrap
>
> .......
> .......
>
> Compiling /home/acm/emacs/emacs/lisp/eshell/em-alias.el
>
> In toplevel form:
> eshell/em-alias.el:96:1:Error: Required feature `esh-groups' was not provided
> make[3]: *** [/home/acm/emacs/emacs/lisp/eshell/em-alias.elc] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/acm/emacs/emacs/lisp'
> make[2]: *** [compile] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/acm/emacs/emacs/lisp'
> make[1]: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/acm/emacs/emacs'
> make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>   

Did you try the steps below?

% cvs update
% make maintainer-clean
% ./configure --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no
% make boostrap


> Unless one has the energy to debug build failures, it's hardly worth the
> hassle of cvs-updating Emacs at the moment.  It _never_ builds cleanly -
> unless the moon is currently blue.  It seems it's not just me.
>
> This constant brokenness of the CVS head saps infinite energy from me.
> This probably isn't just me, either.  I really can't be bothered to debug
> the latest commission every time I do a CVS update.  And yes, I'm aware
> I've broken the CVS build in the past, too.
>
> There was some talk a while ago of commissions triggering an automatic
> build.  This would be nice.
>
> A makefile with proper dependencies might also be a solution.
>
> Please can we fix this with some urgency?
>
>