Bootstrapping fails on Debian testing

[Christoph Conrad]

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Bootstrapping current CVS emacs fails:

Wrote /var/local/cc/news/emacs/leim/quail/CTLau-b5.elc
if [ x`(cd /var/local/cc/news/emacs/leim && /bin/pwd)` = x`(/bin/pwd)` ] ; then 
\
  EMACSLOADPATH=/var/local/cc/news/emacs/leim/../lisp ../src/emacs -batch 
--no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l 
/var/local/cc/news/emacs/leim/../lisp/international/quail \
    --eval "(update-leim-list-file \".\")" ; \
else \
  EMACSLOADPATH=/var/local/cc/news/emacs/leim/../lisp ../src/emacs -batch 
--no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l 
/var/local/cc/news/emacs/leim/../lisp/international/quail \
    --eval "(update-leim-list-file \".\" \"/var/local/cc/news/emacs/leim\")" ; \
fi
Updating /var/local/cc/news/emacs/leim/leim-list.el ...
Loading vc-cvs (compiled; note, source file is newer)...
Symbol's function definition is void: vc-find-root
make[1]: *** [leim-list.el] Fehler 255
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/local/cc/news/emacs/leim'
make: *** [leim] Fehler 2
~

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2004-09-11 on brabbelbox
configured using `configure '--with-x''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: address@hidden
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Ibuffer by recency [cc-filter: (^\*e?shell\|*Man 
^\(\*\|\.\|TAGS\|*Group*\|*mail*\|.newsrc-dribble\|_emacs\|.emacs-scratch\|www-urls\|.nntodo\|2do.txt\|dindex\|[0-9]+\)
 cc-ibuffer-show-dired nil)]

Minor modes in effect:
  partial-completion-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  minibuffer-electric-default-mode: t
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  erc-button-mode: t
  erc-ring-mode: t
  erc-pcomplete-mode: t
  erc-track-mode: t
  erc-fill-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  pc-selection-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-decoding-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
<return> <return> <mouse-movement> M-y <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> C-c C-c <return> C-c C-g C-c C-c e E s <return> 
q <up> q C-c C-g <M-down> <M-down> <M-down> C-u 1 0 
<return> <down> <return> C-u 2 0 M-g q <C-end> <M-up> 
<return> <C-end> <M-up> <return> C-u 1 0 M-g q C-c 
C-c <up> <mouse-movement> <M-up> <M-down> <return> 
c y <C-end> <M-up> <return> <M-S-end> <delete> y q 
<M-up> <M-up> <M-up> <M-up> <M-up> <M-up> <M-up> <M-up> 
<M-up> <M-up> <M-up> <M-up> <M-up> <M-up> <M-up> <M-up> 
<M-up> <M-up> <M-up> <M-up> <M-up> <M-up> <M-up> <return> 
q <M-up> <return> <C-home> <down> <down> q M-x <up> 
<return>

Recent messages:
Sorting threads...done
Generating summary...done
Sorting threads...done
Generating summary...done
Saving /home/cc/.newsrc...
Wrote /home/cc/.newsrc
Saving /home/cc/.newsrc...done
Saving /home/cc/.newsrc.eld...
Wrote /home/cc/.newsrc.eld
Saving /home/cc/.newsrc.eld...done

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