Re: can't build GNU make from savannah git

[Mike Gran]

> On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:44 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> 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'm doing something wrong but it's not clear what, and this 
> makes it hard to proceed.


It looks like your autoreconf is treating warnings as errors.

Beginning with a patch in 2013-10-13, in configure.ac, it does indeed
have the "-Werror" flag enabled in this line

  AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 silent-rules foreign -Wall -Werror])

You might remove the "-Wall -Werror" text of that line in
configure.ac, and that could fix it.

I haven't tried it, though.

-Mike