Re: generic-x needs to require generic

[Andreas Schwab]

Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> writes:

> The warnings indicate that the define-generic-mode macro is not
> defined when generic-x.el is compiled.  define-generic-mode is an
> autoloaded macro in generic.el and it seems that autoloads for
> generic.el are created.  So why isn't generic loaded when generic.el
> is compiled?

Because bootstrap-emacs does not have the newest autoloads preloaded, but
rather the old ones from ldefs-boot.el.

> What I find puzzling as well is that when I do a second "make
> bootstrap" after the first failed, things just work fine:

Try removing lisp/loaddefs.el first.

I've now updated lips/ldefs-boot.el and removed the require from
generic-x.el again.

Andreas.

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