bug#25360: File mode specification errors during building

["Phillip Lord" <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>]

On Sun, March 5, 2017 6:26 pm, Andy Moreton wrote:
> On Sat 04 Mar 2017, Phillip Lord wrote:
>
>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I still see these errors while building master.  Here's the latest
>>> incarnation:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Finding pointers to doc strings...
>>> Finding pointers to doc strings...done
>>> Dumping under the name emacs
>>> Dump memory usage: Heap: 9498624  Large blocks(0/1): 0/786448
>>> Dumping from d:/gnu/git/emacs/trunk/src/temacs.exe
>>> to d:/gnu/git/emacs/trunk/src/emacs.exe 49515 pure bytes used mv -f
>>> emacs.exe bootstrap-emacs.exe make -C ../lisp compile-first
>>> EMACS="../src/bootstrap-emacs.exe"
>>> make[2]: Entering directory `/d/gnu/git/emacs/trunk/lisp'
>>> GEN      mh-e/mh-loaddefs.el
>>> Symbol's function definition is void: w32-convert-standard-filename
>>> Directories for loaddefs: . ./calc ./calendar ./cedet ./cedet/ede
>>> ./cedet/semantic ./cedet/semantic/analyze ./cedet/semantic/bovine
>>> ./cedet/semantic/decorate ./cedet/semantic/symref
>>> ./cedet/semantic/wisent
>>> ./cedet/srecode ./emacs-lisp ./emulation ./erc ./eshell ./gnus ./image
>>>  ./international ./language ./leim ./leim/ja-dic ./leim/quail ./mail
>>> ./mh-e ./net ./nxml ./org ./play ./progmodes ./textmodes ./url ./vc
>>> GEN      loaddefs.el
>>> Symbol's function definition is void: w32-convert-standard-filename
>>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/d/gnu/git/emacs/trunk/lisp'
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The build succeeds nonetheless.  Moreover, if I repeat the offending
>>> command ("make autoloads") manually, there are no error messages.
>>> w32-convert-standard-filename is defined in w32-fns.el, which is
>>> preloaded by loadup.el, so I don't understand this error message, and
>>> am unable to debug it because I cannot reproduce if if I run the same
>>> commands by hand. It could be related to the fact that we use an
>>> emacs executable that overflowed the pure storage (see the "49515 pure
>>>  bytes used" message).
>>>
>>> Can we please fix this annoyance?  (And no, I don't want to
>>> bootstrap, because this deletes all the old binaries I keep for
>>> testing.  And I already tried "make generate-ldefs-boot", it didn't
>>> help.)
>>
>>
>> Yes, I will revert to the old system. Nice idea, but it isn't working.
>> I'll try and find time as quickly as possible.
>>
>
> Please do. I see the same messages about w32-convert-standard-filename,
> but in my case the build always fails.
>

In the mean time, try stuffing this:

(autoload 'w32-convert-standard-filename "w32-fns.el" nil nil nil)

into ldefs-boot-auto.el. generate-ldefs-boot adds this for me anyway. If
it works for you, I can add this to master quicker than I can revert.

Phil