I have only the branch for version 8.0. I upgraded my autoconf (it is weird if autoconf 2.13 is the source of the problem!) and now the error with VPATH is gone, but at the end, compilation fails and no executable is generated. I have attached the log file of my compilation. My branch is also up-to-date. I have run "git pull" before and "git fetch" continuously. Any help will be appreciated. I also got the following warnings which seem not to be a big deal:

config.status: WARNING: '/home/danesh/pike/src/Makefile.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
configure: WARNING: No Login-related functions, username and password will be silently ignored
configure: WARNING: Outdated postgresql version, using potentially unsafe string escaping function
configure: WARNING: gtk/gtk.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by the preprocessor!
configure: WARNING: gtk/gtk.h: proceeding with the compiler's result

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Bill Welliver <bill@welliver.org> wrote:
> As for the branch, you should get something that looks like this (I think
> the branch will vary depending on the last commit):
>
> [hww3@delta pike]$ git branch
> 7.6
> 7.9
> * 8.0
>
> So you might need to do a "git checkout 8.0", assuming 8.0 is the version
> you want.

8.0 ought to be the default, but the above will quickly confirm that.

> I also assume you're just doing a simple "make" in the top level directory.
> That should make everything happen automatically. I don't use autoconf 2.13
> any more, but I think it should still work, though i might need to take some
> time to confirm that.

I've just done a build using autoconf 2.69 on OS X, which worked just
fine. That's also the version I use on Debian Linux. I've no idea
what's required though.

ChrisA