Re: Build failure in master for GNU: "error: cannot open < lib/../nt/gnulib.mk: No such file or directory"

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.  Also Lars and Kaushal.

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 07:54:44PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:22:20 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>

> > I'm getting this error while trying to build under GNU/Linux:

> >     automake-1.15: error: cannot open < lib/../nt/gnulib.mk: No such file 
> > or directory
> >     Makefile:456: recipe for target 'lib/Makefile.in' failed

> Re-run autogen.sh.

Thanks.  I've done that, and my build now builds.  But it's _very_ noisy
(in terms of warning messages), and very slow: almost 11 minutes.  It
seems only a couple of years ago since a make bootstrap was taking me
between 4 and 5 minutes.

> > .  Doesn't *.mk belong to w32 builds?

> No, it belongs to gnulib.

OK, I'll need to learn about that.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).