Bootstrap error for rmail-mbox-branch

Bootstrap error for rmail-mbox-branch

[Otto Maddox]

Hi,

I checked out rmail-inbox-branch a few hours ago.  It fails to build on my Mac OS X 10.4.5:

./configure --with-x --prefix=$HOME/emacs-rmail-mbox
make bootstrap
[...]
LC_ALL=C ./temacs -batch -l loadup dump
Loading loadup.el (source)...
Using load-path (/Volumes/work/emacs-rmail-mbox/lisp)
Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run...
Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...
Loading subr...
Loading version.el (source)...
Loading widget...
Loading custom...
Loading emacs-lisp/map-ynp...
Loading env...
Loading cus-start...
Loading international/mule...
Loading international/mule-conf.el (source)...
Loading format...
Loading bindings...
Loading files...
Loading cus-face...
Loading faces...
Lists of integers (garbage collection statistics) are normal output
while building Emacs; they do not indicate a problem.
((9587 . 6330) (4448 . 0) (557 . 4) 15364 34690 (9 . 4) (17 . 0) (832 . 2066))
Loading loaddefs.el (source)...
Symbol's value as variable is void: user-mail-address
make[3]: *** [emacs] Error 255
make[2]: *** [src] Error 2
make[1]: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2

Does anybody have any ideas?  Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: Bootstrap error for rmail-mbox-branch

[Henrik Enberg]

Otto Maddox <ottomaddox@fastmail.fm> writes:

> I checked out rmail-inbox-branch a few hours ago.  It fails to build
> on my Mac OS X 10.4.5:

Being one of the people working on the mbox-branch, I must admit I never
tried to bootstrap it, I just copy the rmail* (you also need unrmail.el
from the branch) files to a directory on my load-path and use the CVS
Trunk of Emacs.

I should also mention that unless your email is strictly ASCII-based,
the mbox code won't be very suitable right now.  Support for MIME and
non-ASCII charsets is the last big remaining change to be done (and
fixing any bugs we haven't found yet of course).  Other than that,
pretty much all the functionality has been ported.