Quick newbie question

[Lorenzo Bertini]

Il 01/01/22 19:01, Lorenzo Bertini ha scritto:
> Il 01/01/22 17:54, Lorenzo Bertini ha scritto:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I found a bug and needed to bisect, so i moved back HEAD to an old 
>> commit, then configured and built. I went back to master and can't 
>> build anymore because its missing `nod.hpp` file; no git command seems 
>> to restore this file (git reset --hard, creating a new master branch 
>> tracking origin/master, etc).
>>
>> I would like not to clone again as its very slow, but all I find on 
>> the internet are commands I already tried. What should i do?
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>>
>> Lorenzo (lynx)
> 
> Update: file was never gone, just in its folder "3rdparty". Compilation 
> now works after countless attemps, and I didn't really change anything :).

Problem is here again after another attempted bisect, failure, and 
restoring to master, same as last time:

> In file included from ./../support/ForkedCalls.h:17,
>                  from ForkedCalls.cpp:15:
> ./../support/signals.h:15:10: fatal error: nod.hpp:

File "nod.hpp" exists in "3rdparty/nod".

On a side note, I can't build anything from the old builds. Configure in 
2.3.6.2 reported that it couldn't build a qt executable, so i had to add 
"--enable-qt5", but then it said there was an undefined reference to 
"boost basic_regex" (but I have boost libraries installed and working). 
At that point I went back to master, cleaned and configured again, and 
now for some reason it needs "--enable-qt5" whereas before it didn't on 
master.

Not being able to build older versions really hurts because i can't 
bisect. Can someone help me out? I'm on debian 11 stable. I can build 
master just fine.

Thanks,

Lorenzo