GNU bug report logs - #25372
26.0.50; Cannot rebuild Emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 06:48:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 25392

Found in version 26.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 25372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: tino.calancha <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#25372: 26.0.50; Cannot rebuild Emacs
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2017 13:01:21 -0500

Glenn Morris wrote:

> The top-level Makefile, once it exists, should contain the necessary
> logic for rebuilding things. Manual steps should not be needed. Probably
> AUTOMAKE_INPUTS should be changed to include both
> $(srcdir)/lib/gnulib.mk and $(srcdir)/nt/gnulib.mk (which means that the
> variable gnulib_mk isn't needed). Strictly speaking, this was probably
> true before as well.

Actually, I suppose on non-MS platforms, nt/gnulib.mk could be an
order-only prerequisite, because we only need it to exist, not be newer.
But it's probably not worth making the distinction.
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