Re: problem of define-minor-mode while bootstrapping

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:

>>  In article <200209222254.g8MMs8I26785@rum.cs.yale.edu>, "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:
>>  If it's the programmer's responsibility, it is cleaner that
>>  we have this line:
>>  	(ucs-unify-8859 'encode-only)
>>  just after (define-minor-mode unify-8859-on-encoding-mode
>>  ...) in ucs-tables.el than having it in loadup.el.

> Maybe.  I have no opinion on that one.

Ok, I'll fix it later.

>>  > If you want it to be automatic, then what's wrong with the code
>>  > suggested above to which you said "No" ?
>>  
>>  Because it doesn't solve the original problem, i.e.,
>>  eval-after-load doesn't work at bootstrapping time.

> Doesn't it ?  Why not ?

I wrote the reason in the first mail of this thread as below:
> In that case, define-minor-mode calls eval-after-load, and
> it calls load-symbol-file-load-history, and it tries to load
> fns-XXX.el.  But, at bootstrapping time, fns-XXX.el is not
> yet created.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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