Re: Splitting and moving generic.el.

[Jason Rumney]

Lute Kamstra wrote:

> Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Lute Kamstra wrote:
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> > > Doing (require 'generic-x) shouldn't load generic unless generic-x is
> > > loaded from source.  Any idea why your lisp/generic-x.el isn't
> > > compiled?
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> > generic-x.el is in the DONTCOMPILE list in the lisp makefile.
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> DONTCOMPILE was bogus.  Everything in it was compiled just the same.
> Just setting no-byte-compile prohibits compilation.  Anyway, I removed
> DONTCOMPILE from the makefiles one week ago.  I guess that generic-x
> didn't get compiled on your system because compilation failed due to
> the old lisp/generic.elc.  If a lisp file fails to compile on
> GNU/Linux, bootstrap terminates with an error.  Does that work
> differently on Windows or did you use "make -k bootstrap"?
>  
I used "make recompile", which I mistakenly thought had worked, since it 
didn't give any errors.
"make bootstrap" gives "Invalid escape sequence" on my machine, which is 
another recent problem I haven't yet tracked down the cause of, but it 
seems to be specific to the build environment on that machine.