Re: Upgrading Emacs from Git

[Emanuel Berg]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

>> What do you do if that fails as well?
>
> In the directory that contains the git checkout
> execute:
>
> git clean -f -d -x
>
> That ensures that you are using a pristine source
> directory. Then
>
> make
>
> If that fails, then the build is broken due to some
> erroneous change made by the developers. Wait one day
> or two, "git pull" again, repeat the build process.
> If the build is still broken, on Emacs do
>
> M-x report-emacs-bug
>
> including details about your setup (compiler, library
> versions, etc) and the output of the build at the
> failure point.
>
> It is possible to check out a previous vesion (one day
> ago, for instance) instead of waiting for a fix
> upstream, but that requires and slightly more
> complicated git usage.

Case closed :)

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