Makefile:701: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed

[Paul Harper]

I am trying to build mu4e from git.

I get the errors below.

What am I missing?

Making all in mu4e

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/pharper/git/mu/mu4e'

make[3]: Entering directory '/home/pharper/git/mu/mu4e'

if test "emacs" != "no"; then \

  am__dir=. am__subdir_includes=''; \

  case mu4e-actions.elc in */*) \

    am__dir=`echo 'mu4e-actions.elc' | sed 's,/[^/]*$,,'`; \

    am__subdir_includes="-L $am__dir -L ./$am__dir"; \

  esac; \

  test -d "$am__dir" || /bin/mkdir -p "$am__dir" || exit 1; \

  emacs --batch \

      \

    $am__subdir_includes -L . -L . \

    --eval "(defun byte-compile-dest-file (f) \"mu4e-actions.elc\")" \

    --eval "(unless (byte-compile-file \"mu4e-actions.el\") (kill-emacs 1))"; \

else :; fi

/usr/bin/emacsclient: unrecognized option '--batch'

Try '/usr/bin/emacsclient --help' for more information

Makefile:628: recipe for target 'mu4e-actions.elc' failed

make[3]: *** [mu4e-actions.elc] Error 1

make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/pharper/git/mu/mu4e'

Makefile:701: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed

make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/pharper/git/mu/mu4e'

Makefile:497: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pharper/git/mu'

Makefile:406: recipe for target 'all' failed

make: *** [all] Error 2

pharper@parrot:~/git/mu$ 

Thanks and regards,

Paul

[Paul Harper]

Forgot to say I am using Debian Jessie with emacs-snapshot --version GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1

[Mohamed HIBTI]

Hi Paul,
My guess is that you have some setting to an env variable "EMACS" to "/usr/bin/emacsclient" which do not have a batch option.

[Paul Harper]

How do I fix this so that mu will compile?

[Mohamed HIBTI]

I'm not sure if it works but first locate your emacs (for instance /usr/local/bin/emacs) and then configure with EMACS=your/path/to/EMACS

./configure EMACS=....
I hope this will help.

[Paul Harper]

Thanks! that was the clue I needed. In my case I needed to point to emacs-snapshot and it worked.

autoreconf -i && ./configure EMACS=/usr/bin/emacs-snapshot && make