Re: can't build GNU make from savannah git

[Mike Gran]

> On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 4:23 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> 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 different way (log attached), with the following 
> puzzling diagnostics at the point of failure:
> 
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/eggert/src/gnu/make/po'
> test ! -f ./make.pot || \
>    test -z "be.gmo cs.gmo da.gmo de.gmo es.gmo fi.gmo fr.gmo ga.gmo 
> gl.gmo he.gmo hr.gmo id.gmo it.gmo ja.gmo ko.gmo lt.gmo nl.gmo pl.gmo 
> pt_BR.gmo ru.gmo sv.gmo tr.gmo uk.gmo vi.gmo zh_CN.gmo" || make be.gmo 
> cs.gmo da.gmo de.gmo es.gmo fi.gmo fr.gmo ga.gmo gl.gmo he.gmo hr.gmo 
> id.gmo it.gmo ja.gmo ko.gmo lt.gmo nl.gmo pl.gmo pt_BR.gmo ru.gmo sv.gmo 
> tr.gmo uk.gmo vi.gmo zh_CN.gmo

(By the way, I'm not a maintainer, just so you know.)

In 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.