GNU bug report logs - #8497
Bug#620795: emacs23: Makefile generation with cpp mangles multiarch include paths (impending FTBFS)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rob Browning <rlb <at> defaultvalue.org>

Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 8520, 8543, 8637, 8673, 8808

Found in version 23.3

Fixed in version 24.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 8497-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Rob Browning <rlb <at> defaultvalue.org>
Cc: 620795-forwarded <at> bugs.debian.org, 8497-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	steve.langasek <at> canonical.com, 620795 <at> bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: bug#8497: Bug#620795: emacs23: Makefile generation with cpp
	mangles multiarch include paths (impending FTBFS)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:46:06 -0400

> From: Rob Browning <rlb <at> defaultvalue.org>
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:56:03 -0500
> Cc: 620795-forwarded <at> bugs.debian.org,
> 	Steve Langasek <steve.langasek <at> canonical.com>, 620795 <at> bugs.debian.org
> 
> 
> (If possible, please preserve the 620795-forwarded address in any replies.)
> 
> Debian is likely to migrate to multiarch, and it appears that the
> transition will probably break the Emacs build process.
> 
> The problem is that Emacs uses cpp to process the Makefiles

It no longer does in the development trunk.  However, that change is
not (and probably will not be) in the emacs-23 release branch, only in
Emacs 24 when that is released.

So I'm closing this bug.
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 352 days ago.

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