On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:17:43 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
TZ> On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:21:10 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
