Re: can't build GNU make from savannah git

2014-09-07 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 23:25 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Mike Gran wrote: > > n the README.git , it says that you need to do a "make update" > > between the "configure" and the "make" step. I think you skipped > > that part. > > Ah, thanks, I did skip it. Shouldn't the 'make' build procedure be

Re: can't build GNU make from savannah git

2014-08-06 Thread Paul Eggert
Mike Gran wrote: n the README.git , it says that you need to do a "make update" between the "configure" and the "make" step. I think you skipped that part. Ah, thanks, I did skip it. Shouldn't the 'make' build procedure be smart enough to figure this one out on its own? Anyway, I did a 'ma

Re: can't build GNU make from savannah git

2014-08-06 Thread Mike Gran
  > On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 4:23 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > > Mike Gran wrote: > >>  You might remove the "-Wall -Werror" text of that line in >>  configure.ac, and that could fix it. > > Thanks, I tried that (patch attached) and the build got further, but the > build failed in a differe

Re: can't build GNU make from savannah git

2014-08-06 Thread Paul Eggert
Mike Gran wrote: You might remove the "-Wall -Werror" text of that line in configure.ac, and that could fix it. Thanks, I tried that (patch attached) and the build got further, but the build failed in a different way (log attached), with the following puzzling diagnostics at the point of fail

Re: can't build GNU make from savannah git

2014-08-06 Thread Mike Gran
> On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:44 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > > README.git says that the following should work, but it fails for me: > > git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/make.git > cd make > autoreconf -i > > I get failures under both Fedora 20 and Ubuntu 14.04 (attached). > Evidently I'