Re: bug#821: 23.0.60; bootstrap fails due to define-minor-mode in textmode/paragraphs.el

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:08:05 -0400 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote: 

GM> tags 821 unreproducible
GM> stop

GM> Ted Zlatanov wrote:

TZ> Loading textmodes/paragraphs.el (source)...
TZ> Attempt to autoload define-minor-mode while preparing to dump
GM> [...]
>> Correction: this has been broken for at least 10 days, I didn't look
>> further back.  Perhaps it's a problem with my setup.  I just upgraded to
>> Ubuntu 8.04.

GM> Sorry, but you get the dread `unreproducible' tag again. :(
GM> I don't know why you have these problems...

How frustrating.  I have not done anything unusual on my system, yet
keep having these compilation problems.  It may be one of the packages
I've installed interfering with the build process.  I'll think about a
full reinstall, but how bizarre that it should come to that.

GM> Does this at least mean that bug #327 (the "no rule to make target"
GM> thing) has gone away?

For a while (until this bug) I was editing ELCFILES and removing the
contents; the .el files would get compiled with a warning that they were
not in ELCFILES but otherwise everything worked.  The latest bug is not
something I can work around, unfortunately, so I'll have to dig deeper
into the system breakage that's causing the problem.

Thanks for your attention...
Ted