Ulrich Mueller writes: > >>>>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Uday S Reddy wrote: > > > I understand that you are catching the possible error with the > > version.txt file. But, for the OP, it looks like the version.txt > > file didn't get generated. Or it got generated somewhere else. Do we > > know why? > > Hi Uday, > > It's a bootstrap problem: version.txt is generated relatively late by > a make rule. However vm-version.el is required by vm-build.el which is > needed earlier at configure time.
Hi Ulrich, I have just done a clean build of 8.1.1-devo with a version.txt file in place that said "VM 8.1.0-beta". The file remained as it is, and didn't get regenerated. If I deleted the version.txt file and did another build, it got generated. But I don't think we can depend on the users to go through this protocol every time. Looking at the Makefile, it doesn't show any dependencies for version.txt. So, if the file exists at all, then make leaves it alone. It seems to me that the right time to generate the version.txt file is when ./configure is done. Is it possible to set things up so that it gets generated at that time? Cheers, Uday _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~vm Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~vm More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
