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bug#25359: autoreconf no longer suffices
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From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
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Subject: |
bug#25359: autoreconf no longer suffices |
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Date: |
Wed, 04 Jan 2017 21:59:34 +0200 |
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 14:36:16 -0500
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> After cloning a fresh Emacs, one used to be able to do:
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> autoreconf -fi -I m4
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> then configure etc.
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> In current master, this no longer works:
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> automake: error: cannot open < lib/../nt/gnulib.mk: No such file or
> directory
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
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> I think it is wrong to make autogen.sh compulsory in this way.
Why do you think it's wrong?
> (Obviously the missing file is irrelevant anyway on non MS-Windows
> platforms.)
Evidently, it isn't irrelevant, otherwise the error would have never
happened, right?