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Re: Build failure on Windows
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martin rudalics |
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Re: Build failure on Windows |
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Tue, 07 Mar 2017 17:13:43 +0100 |
>> 1. If you want to build Emacs outside of the source tree
>> (recommended), create the build directory and chdir there.
>>
>> Maybe we should remove that recommendation?
>
> I don't see why. Your problems are all related to outdated Lisp
> files, so out-of-tree builds are unlikely to be a factor. (Which
> means I again don't understand why you report a perceptible
> degradation in build success rates, while I don't see anything close
> to that.)
Was the gnulib.mk issue from my first message in this thread related to
out-of-tree building?
>> > Are the failures always with outdated Lisp files? Or are they due to
>> > other aspects of the build?
>>
>> I had three typical groups of failures (some of them also on GNU/Linux
>> IIRC):
>>
>> - The "require cl-lib" ones - by far the largest group and by far the
>> greatest annoyance. Do we really need cl-lib in preloaded Elisp? OK,
>> this ship sailed long ago ...
>>
>> - More specific cl-generic.el related errors. IIRC usually something
>> about cl-defgeneric but I don't recall the precise text any more.
>> probably a subgroup of the first one.
>>
>> - Something I certainly never saw before about invalid bytecode.
>
> These are all related to outdated *.elc files.
OK. I never saw these in the past years. Maybe I was just lucky.
>> Also, failures occurred only when a configure step was performed before
>> (which is probably obvious). Pure makes never failed.
>
> You mean, when configure is run automatically by "make"?
Yes. BTW, all rebuilds in the past minutes had configure run
automatically and succeeded without problems. So maybe the issue is
resolved.
martin
- Re: Build failure on Windows, (continued)
- Re: Build failure on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/03/05
- Re: Build failure on Windows, martin rudalics, 2017/03/06
- Re: Build failure on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/03/06
- Re: Build failure on Windows, martin rudalics, 2017/03/06
- Re: Build failure on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/03/06
- Re: Build failure on Windows, martin rudalics, 2017/03/07
- Re: Build failure on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/03/07
- Re: Build failure on Windows,
martin rudalics <=
- Re: Build failure on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/03/07
Re: Build failure on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/03/05