GNU bug report logs - #9459
24.0.50; Configure aborts, complains about missing install.sh in build-aux

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 16:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

Message #20 received at 9459-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 9459-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9459: 24.0.50;	Condigure aborts, complains about missing
	install.sh in build-aux.
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:15:02 +0200


Paul Eggert skrev 2011-09-07 20:00:
> On 09/07/11 09:44, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> Run ./autogen.sh by hand, and everything will be fixed again.
>
> Yes, that's right.
>
>> I don't know if GNUMakefile is supposed to DTRT with the kind of
>> changes installed in one of the recent commits (files used during
>> configure moved to other subdirectories).  Paul?
>
> In general, GNUmakefile can't recover from arbitrary mishaps
> when one has an old tree, does a "bzr update", and then tries to
> mimic autogen.sh's actions by hand but makes a mistake in the
> process (which is what happened here).
>

I did not try to mimic autogen.sh, I just did make.
If there was a mistake in there somewhere, the make rules are wrong.

	Jan D.
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 319 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.