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> Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 10:27:08 +0200, Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es> wrote:
> > 
> > > Any more hints on how to debug this?
> > 
> > Hmmmm...
> > 
> > After:
> > 
> > nmake realclean
> > nmake bootstrap
> > nmake install
> > 
> > some functions from preloaded files do not have docstrings (their
> > bytecode function object has 0 on the DOCSTRING element).
> 
> I remember a few weeks ago we reverted a change to build the DOC
> file from the .el files on Windows, since building with the .el files
> does not work.  I think there may have been another part of that
> change that we forgot to revert, ie regenerating the DOC file after
> the .elc files have been compiled (perhaps in a different makefile
> than the other change).

The DOC file is not necessary for the bootstrap, so it would
be simpler to not generate it before having generated the elc files.


	Stefan