Re: Abysmal state of GTK build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:51:16 +0200
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, luangruo@yahoo.com
> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> 
> > It's some kind of bug, but I'm not sure where.  I have this from time
> > to time on one particular system where I regularly build Emacs, but
> > not on others.  Usually, a second "make" right after that succeeds.
> > 
> > I always thought that it's because some system-wide snafu unrelated to
> > Emacs on that single system.  But now I'm not so sure.
> 
> I guess it's indeed a bug.  When I
> 
> touch configure
> make
> 
> it says
> 
> running CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh /bin/sh ./configure --config-cache 
> --with-native-compilation --no-create --no-recursion
> 
> and fails in the same way as described before.

And if you say "make" again, does it still fail?

It sounds like this is something macOS-specific, because for me on
that single system it fails only rarely, and the next "make" usually
succeeds.