Re: build broken: no defun org-float-time. Who's guilty, and what does he propose?

[Jan D.]

I think most problems comes from doing
cvs update
and then you get old .elc files left behind or you need to do
make bootstrap
again.

A make that removed old .elc files and did bootstrap when needed is  
the ideal solution. The second part is probably very hard.

    Jan D.

7 sep 2009 kl. 11.52 skrev address@hidden:

> Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi, Emacs,
> >
> > I've just cvs updated, and the build breaks with:
> >
> >  org/org-ascii.el:29:1:Error: Symbol's function definition is void:  
> > org-float-time
> >
> > Could the person who's responsible please fix this.
> >
> > Here we go again.  The endless tread mill of the broken build.  It  
> > feels
> > like being spat at.  Sorry to be so "unhelpful", but I've got no  
> > desire
> > or energy to keep debugging broken builds, or to keep "try make
> > bootstrap"ing.  I'm going through a very bad patch in my personal  
> > life,
> > and I just don't have the energy any more, and I'm not prepared to  
> > do it.
> >
> > "cvs update" followed by "make" MUST WORK NEARLY ALL THE TIME.
> > Alternatively "bzr update", "make" working nearly all the time  
> > would be
> > OK.
> >
> > This is a serious process bug we have, we've had for years, and we  
> > MUST
> > fix.  If it's not fixed soon, I'm just going to give up on Emacs
> > maintenance and bid the project goodbye.  The pain level is too high.
>
> I've been interested in setting up an automatic build test environment
> for Emacs for some time. It would basically checkout the emacs sources
> on every checkin, build the sources and report the build
> quality(probably with some existing continuous integration software).
>
> I would also store a TB or something of past builds.
>
> Would that be of any help to you?
>
>
> > Sorry, and all that.
> --
> Joakim Verona