begin Sean Neakums quotation:
> begin Steve Lord quotation:
>
>> I completed an emacs build - surprisingly quickly, but I want to try
>> a different version, I am building rpms here and there is something
>> wrong with the rpm package I have - or it is incompatible with my
>> machine.... the compile worked, but the rpm failed to build, but the
>> error seems more to do with the rpm package itself than a corrupted
>> file.
>>
>> Have to dash now, more tomorrow.
>
> I've just realised that my swap is divided between two partitions.
> I've taken one and created an XFS filesystem on it. Building emacs
> now.
Weird, it failed the with the same errors I was getting using the XFS
LVM volume:
make[2]: *** No rule to make target
`/datacomp/emacs21-21.1/src/../lisp/register.elc', needed by `../etc/DOC'.
Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/datacomp/emacs21-21.1/src'
make[1]: *** [src] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/datacomp/emacs21-21.1'
make: *** [debian/stamp-build] Error 2
I've been unpacking the source fresh for each try.
What seems to be causing this build error is that the dumped emacs
binary is missing. I scrolled back in the make output, and saw
messages indicating that the dump had been successfully done to the
files src/emacs-21.1 and src/emacs, and that src/temacs had been
deleted. But when I look in src/, temacs is still there, and there is
no sign of emacs-21.1 and emacs, but temacs is still there.
This is jolly strange. Could the very presence of LVM be affecting
XFS, even though the filesystem is on a simple partition?
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