From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: problem of define-minor-mode while bootstrapping Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:33:44 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200209241533.g8OFXib06640@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200209210157.KAA05776@etlken.m17n.org> <200209222254.g8MMs8I26785@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200209230208.LAA07889@etlken.m17n.org> <200209231827.g8NIRl430076@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200209240306.MAA09181@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032881766 23547 127.0.0.1 (24 Sep 2002 15:36:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:36:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, d.love@dl.ac.uk Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17trjF-00067E-00 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:36:01 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17tsQ4-0004N2-00 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:20:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17trjJ-0004AW-00; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:36:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17trhd-00047h-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:34:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17trhb-00047V-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:34:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17trhb-00047R-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:34:19 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g8OFXib06640; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:33:44 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Kenichi Handa Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8148 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8148 > >> 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. Huh? AFAIK load-symbol-file-load-history and fns-XXX.el have been removed from the trunk, so I don't understand why that would be a problem. Stefan