Re: can't build GNU make from savannah git

[Paul Eggert]

Mike Gran wrote:
> n 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.

Ah, thanks, I did skip it.  Shouldn't the 'make' build procedure be 
smart enough to figure this one out on its own?

Anyway, I did a 'make update' and the process went a bit further.  It 
then hung after asking:

wget --passive-ftp -nv 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/plain/build-aux/texinfo.tex 
-O config/texinfo.tex
2014-08-06 16:49:09 
URL:http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/plain/build-aux/texinfo.tex 
[326981/326981] -> "config/texinfo.tex.t" [1]
mv: replace ‘config/texinfo.tex’, overriding mode 0444 (r--r--r--)?

I typed 'yes', and then typed 'yes' a few times more after similar 
questions (shouldn't this all be automated too?) and eventually got 
something to build.

The resulting 'make' did not have the bug I was looking for, so this was 
all a red herring for me, but I hope the build glitches I've reported 
can be fixed so that the next potential contributor isn't put off by them.