Re: Splitting and moving generic.el.

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

Lute Kamstra wrote:

>
>Doing (require 'generic-x) shouldn't load generic unless generic-x is
>loaded from source.  Any idea why your lisp/generic-x.el isn't
>compiled?
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>
generic-x.el is in the DONTCOMPILE list in the lisp makefile.

>The error suggests that an old version of generic is used (from before
>define-generic-mode became a macro, one month ago).  Do you have
>lisp/emacs-lisp/generic.el, revision 1.1?  Is your
>lisp/emacs-lisp/generic.elc up to date?  Is an old lisp/generic.el{,c}
>shadowing lisp/emacs-lisp/generic.el{,c}?
>  
>
There was an old generic.elc that didn't get cleaned out by the 
bootstrap. This is probably the biggest problem caused by moving files 
around, CVS might delete the old .el file, but the .elc gets left behind.

>Can you reproduce your problem when you (do a make bootstrap and)
>start Emacs with "emacs -Q" and do (require 'generic-x) manually?
>
>Lute.
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