bootstrap error: "function definition is void: define-minor-mode"

[Klaus Zeitler]

Hello,
due to lack of time I didn't follow recent discussions in the various emacs
mailing lists. Yesterday I sent the following problem to emacs-devel, but
maybe I should have sent it to emacs-pretest-bug. So here's the bootstrap
error again (with apologies for sending it twice):


this morning I wiped out my more than 3 months old CVS version and checked
the whole emacs tree out anew. But the bootstrap build fails with:

Symbol's function definition is void: define-minor-mode


Here's the final temacs call:


`/bin/pwd`/temacs --batch --load loadup bootstrap
Loading loadup.el (source)...
Using load-path (/vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs/lisp /vol/freeware/cvs/emacs
/head/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp /vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs/lisp/language /vo
l/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs/lisp/international /vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/
emacs/lisp/textmodes)
Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run (source)...
Loading emacs-lisp/backquote (source)...
Loading subr (source)...
Loading version.el (source)...
Loading widget (source)...
Loading custom (source)...
Loading emacs-lisp/map-ynp (source)...
Loading cus-start (source)...
Loading international/mule (source)...
Loading international/mule-conf.el (source)...
Loading env (source)...
Loading format (source)...
Loading bindings (source)...
Loading /vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs/lisp/files.el (source)...
Loading /vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs/lisp/cus-face.el (source)...
Loading /vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs/lisp/faces.el (source)...
Loading /vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs/lisp/minibuffer.el (source)...
Loading /vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs/lisp/button.el (source)...
Loading /vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs/lisp/startup.el (source)...
Lists of integers (garbage collection statistics) are normal output
while building Emacs; they do not indicate a problem.
((119291 . 18871) (6455 . 3) (600 . 158) 477130 1034891 (38 . 1) (22 . 5) (9485 
. 7021))
Loading /vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el (source)...
((119303 . 18859) (6456 . 2) (600 . 158) 477278 1034891 (38 . 1) (22 . 5) (9489 
. 7017))
Loading /vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs/lisp/abbrev.el (source)...
Symbol's function definition is void: define-minor-mode
make[2]: *** [bootstrap-emacs] Error 255
make[2]: Leaving directory `/vol/freeware/SunOS-5.8/build/emacs-cvs/src'
make[1]: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/vol/freeware/SunOS-5.8/build/emacs-cvs'
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
ERROR: emacs: make


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|  Klaus Zeitler      Alcatel-Lucent               |
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