Re: Build failure for Emacs master

[Phillip Lord]

Andy Moreton <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Ah, yes, indeed.

Thank you very much, that was driving me crazy.

Phil