Re: Bootstrap failure

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-11-12 11:44 +0100, Romain Francoise wrote:

> Sometime in the last three weeks a regression was introduced which
> leads a to build failure when bootstrapping, as follows:
>
> | Loading files...
> | Loading cus-face...
> | Loading faces...
> | Loading minibuffer...
> | Loading button...
> | Loading startup...
> | Invalid function: "/home/romain/src/emacs/emacs.git/lisp/startup.elc"
> | make[1]: *** [bootstrap-emacs] Error 255
> | make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/romain/src/emacs/emacs.git/src'
> | make: *** [src] Error 2
>
> I can reliably reproduce it with the following steps:
>
>  1. Start from a clean checkout
>  2. ./configure && make
>  3. make distclean
>  4. ./configure && make
>
> Step four fails with the message above. When in that situation,
> doing 'make src' fails, but 'make -C src' works. This probably
> points to a problem with the handling of BOOTSTRAPEMACS, but I'm not
> sure what.

I have bisected the problem, and it seems to have appeared first¹ after
the removal of generated-autoload-feature and the switch from require to
load in numerous files in Stefan's change from 2009-11-03 (commit
11203bc8dfccc062b7727fa5c5ecda0fd39fb37f for those who are using the git
repository).

Sven


¹ The version from that commit does not actually build, so I cannot say
  that with 100% certainty.