Re: Failure to bootstrap on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:29:15 +0200
> 
> I'm trying to bootstrap Emacs on Windows and I'm getting this error:
> 
> LC_ALL=C ./temacs -batch -l loadup dump
> Loading loadup.el (source)...
> Using load-path (c:/Devel/emacs/repo/trunk/lisp)
> Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run (source)...
> Loading emacs-lisp/backquote (source)...
> Loading subr (source)...
> Loading version (source)...
> Loading widget (source)...
> Loading custom (source)...
> Loading emacs-lisp/map-ynp (source)...
> Loading international/mule (source)...
> Loading international/mule-conf (source)...
> Loading env (source)...
> Loading format (source)...
> Loading bindings (source)...
> Loading window (source)...
> Loading files.el (source)...
> Loading emacs-lisp/macroexp...
> Loading cus-face.el (source)...
> Loading faces.el (source)...
> Loading button.el (source)...
> Loading loaddefs.el (source)...
> Growing hash table to: 105000
> Loading emacs-lisp/nadvice.el (source)...
> Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Attempt to autoload
> gv--defun-declaration while preparing to dump")
> Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Attempt to autoload
> gv--defun-declaration while preparing to dump")
> Attempt to autoload gv--defun-declaration while preparing to dump
> Makefile:508: recipe for target 'emacs.exe' failed
> make[1]: *** [emacs.exe] Error -1
> make[1]: Leaving directory 'c:/devel/emacs/repo/trunk/src'
> Makefile:398: recipe for target 'src' failed
> make: *** [src] Error 2
> 
> Is this a known problem?

I don't see this, neither on GNU/Linux nor on MS-Windows.  How did you
configure Emacs?

The above looks strange: Emacs loads source *.el files, but uses
loaddefs.el, not ldefs-boot.el.  Is your repository clean?  is this
the first build attempt after cloning a fresh repository?