Re: Failure to build mew
I can build bbdb just fine: cd comm/bbdb; make; make bindist
It's the comm Makefile that stops as soon as I get the mew error. As
I noted in an earlier email, this keeps eicq and zenirc from building,
too. Apparently, the mid-level Makefiles do not ignore errors from
leaf directories.
- vin
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
>>>>> "vin" == Vin Shelton
<acs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
vin> Here is the problem I'm having with building bbdb. As I
vin> noted earlier, the problem is actually in mew. If I cd to
vin> comm and run 'make', here is what happens:
[...]
vin> poe.el seems to be in apel, which I do not install.
rm -rf comm/mew seems in order then, since you can't build it anyway.
If bbdb won't build without mew, something's seriously wrong.
The current generation of package systems (which are starting to creak
like a Communist gerontocracy under the weight of rapid growth) do not
respond at all gracefully to missing dependencies. XEmacs is no
exception.
Don't the middle manager Makefiles ignore error returns from the
submakes?
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