Re: Build failure for Emacs master

[Andy Moreton]

On Wed 20 Apr 2016, Phillip Lord wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> Is this a full bootstrap, or just a rebuild after "git pull"?  If the
>> latter, copy ldefs-boot.el over loaddefs.el, and try again, or make a
>> full bootstrap.  (The problem might be triggered by a bad loaddefs.el
>> left from an old build, before the bug was solved.)
>
> It's full bootstrap, am afraid.
>
> git clean -xf
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure
> make
>
> That the problem is occuring during generation of loaddefs.el is a red
> herring I think. loaddefs.el is fine (although empty except for the
> header). I'm guessing that ja-dic.el is loaded for the first time during
> the loaddefs.el generation.
>
> ja-dic.el looks like it has some serious encoding problems.

lisp/leim/ja-dic/ is generated during bootstrap, so will not be cleaned
by your command above (and may still be corrupt from a previous ffailed
build). Try "git clean -xdf" instead.

    AndyM