[Gambas-user] Latest commit failing to compile (gbx)

[Bruce Steers]

On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 at 04:00, Bruce <adamnt42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/3/21 10:27 am, Bruce Steers wrote:
> >
> Bruce,
> It's not "your fault" it's just "your system". It happens because
> occasionally the autotools macros think something does or does not need
> to happen. Why, I have no idea. When, ditto. "Because", gremlins exist.
>
> It is not something that is peculiiar to Gambas. I'd say I get one of
> these events about once a fortnight (I use quite a lot of install from
> source applications. However I get no problems well over 95% of the time.
>
> "make clean" is something we all have to do now and then when autotools
> scrunges things up. There is no need to cry about it.
>
> If, on the other hand, something still wont go (configure or make) after
> a "make clean" then there may be a source files or autotools config
> files problem.
>
> BTW you "should" only have to do/try a "make distclean" if a fail occurs
> at the "make install" stage. "make clean" should do the trick before
> that point.
>
> regards
>
> bruce
>

Aah thank you bruce
That clears things up.
My voice of inexperience in these things humbles at your voice of
experience :)

I added a bit to my installers that suggests running make clean if compile
fails where it didn't before.
(and an extra bit to wiki after it suggests trying ./reconf-all if it
happens)

All the best
BruceS
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