Re: "make autoloads" fails

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jan Djärv <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:21:09 +0200
> 
> A clean checkout on OSX fails on make bootstrap:
> 
> cd ../lisp; make  autoloads 
> EMACS=/Users/jhd/src/emacs/obj-constr/src/bootstrap-emacs
> EMACSLOADPATH=/Users/jhd/src/emacs/constr/lisp LC_ALL=C 
> /Users/jhd/src/emacs/obj-constr/src/bootstrap-emacs -batch --no-site-file 
> --no-site-lisp -l autoload \
>          --eval "(setq generate-autoload-cookie \";;;###cal-autoload\")" \
>          --eval "(setq generated-autoload-file (unmsys--file-name 
> \"/Users/jhd/src/emacs/constr/lisp/calendar/cal-loaddefs.el\"))" \
>          --eval "(setq make-backup-files nil)" \
>          -f batch-update-autoloads /Users/jhd/src/emacs/constr/lisp/calendar
> Loading macroexp.elc...
> Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
> make[3]: *** [/Users/jhd/src/emacs/constr/lisp/calendar/cal-loaddefs.el] 
> Error 255
> make[2]: *** [/Users/jhd/src/emacs/constr/src/../lisp/loaddefs.el] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [src] Error 2
> make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
> 
> Is it possible that existing trees work fine, but new one fails?

Yes.  The bug was with passing a string (as opposed to region of
buffer positions) to select-safe-coding-system, which only happens
when the autoload files don't exist.