<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:32 PM, P Kishor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:punk.kish@gmail.com" target="_blank">punk.kish@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":z5" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">Hi, I am not sure what to make of your email. The log file is 2562<br>
lines long, so I included the last 20 or so lines where the actual<br>
error message appears (or so it seems to me).</div></blockquote></div><br>That's not the actual error message; it is where the build system noticed that an error occurred, somewhere after the actual error occurred. The actual error is not present, only a notification that some error did occur.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">(Pretty much everyone who is not familiar with how build systems work assumes that this notice from the build system is the actual error and/or is somehow sufficient for anyone else to be able to diagnose the problem. Also, most people don't understand that on a multicore machine, the actual build error is often *well* before the build system notices it --- it will continue to build unrelated things, and only report after those unrelated things have finished. This is why we insist that people provide *full* build logs.)<br><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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