Re: current CVS bootstrap broken?

[Jason Rumney]

Richard Stallman wrote:

>      I had some problems with bootstrapping and parse-time-string 
>     last night, which I didn't have time to debug fully, but I think it 
>     might be caused by the removal of a require for parse-time and addition 
>     of an autoload cookie instead.
>
> If that is the case, I suspect that the code is setting some variable
> in the file parse-time.

It appears to be a chicken and egg problem. Maybe it can be solved by a 
change to loaddefs-boot.el?

The code is in vc-cvs.el, and is a call to parse-time-string which is 
now autoloaded. The problem encountered is that when Emacs tries to save 
loaddefs.el after generating it, it loads vc-cvs.el and tries to run the 
code in question. But since loaddefs.el has not been written yet, the 
autoload does not work, and parse-time-string is left undefined.