Re: where to report bootstrap bugs?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:14:25 +0100 Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote: 

MA> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>> Is there a more appropriate place to ask about `make bootstrap' problems
>> from a CVS checkout, if emacs-devel is not it?
>> 
>> After 1.5 months since I submitted a problem report to emacs-devel (I
>> can't do a bug report because the bootstrap won't build) I haven't heard
>> anything.  While I may be the only one having the problem, my Ubuntu
>> installation is hardly unusual so other users could be running into this
>> as well.

MA> I don't remember your report, but from time to time I need a "make
MA> distclean; ./configure; make bootstrap". Maybe this is sufficient for
MA> you as well?  I'm also running Ubuntu.

I thought I was going crazy, so I did this, plus a clean checkout to a
completely new directory...  Nothing worked.  I traced the problem to a
test in fileio.c, and I wonder if it's a system library issue.  See my
report, which I reposted.

Thanks
Ted