Re: Unable to install 21.4.1 to Debian GNU/Linux x86 potato

Hannu Koivisto <azure(a)iki.fi&gt; writes: | sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes: | | | Something wonky is going on. It's triggering a re-make of xemacs in | | src which it shouldn't at this stage of the install. Can you do an | | "ls -l src/xemacs"? | | (I ran both of the commands after a successful make.) | | -rwxrwxr-x 1 azure azure 8359542 Apr 24 11:07 src/xemacs | | | Moreover, can you see if "cd src; make -n | | install" indeed wants to run update-elc once again? | | So it seems: | | touch NOBYTECOMPILE | ./temacs -nd -batch -l /home/azure/projects/software/3rdparty/xemacs-21.4-compiled/src/../lisp/update-elc.el | if test ! -f update-elc.stamp -o -f NOBYTECOMPILE; then touch update-elc.stamp; fi; \ | rm -f NOBYTECOMPILE I don't really know how that (GNU)Makefile is supposed to work, but I managed to work around the problem by removing the forced dependency of update-elc.stamp, namely FRC.update-elc.stamp, from the src/GNUMakefile. Now I only have to figure out how to get all the packages to compile :) -- Hannu Please don't send copies of list mail