Re: make fails during Emacs build process

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:17:43 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote: 

TZ> On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:21:10 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote: 
TZ> I submitted an Emacs bug for this, but it may be a Make issue instead.
TZ> Take a look at the thread:

TZ> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/18146/focus=97922

TZ> basically I'm able to take a dependency off a target and everything
TZ> works mysteriously.  It may be related to the number of files in the
TZ> dependency (it's a variable with every lisp/*/*.el file).  I don't see
TZ> any clues from make -d or make -p.  I've posted all the logs and
TZ> circumstances in the thread but would be happy to explain further.

TZ> Can anyone suggest ways to find out why Make is not finding the rules
TZ> that work for others?  What kind of debugging outside of -d and -p can I
TZ> do?

After much annoyance, I found that the Ubuntu (3.81-3build1) build of
GNU Make was the problem.  After I uninstalled that version and
installed GNU Make 3.81 from source, everything worked smoothly.

If anyone is interested in pursuing this further, I'll do whatever
testing you need.

Thanks
Ted