Re: autoload failure

[Tak Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>]

Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:32:50 -0400: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

>     >Why does emacs think grep belongs to compile?
> 
> Perhaps loaddefs.el needs to be updated.
> In the lisp directory, you can do `make autoloads'.

It fails like this:

bash-2.05b$ make autoloads
[Please ignore a syntax error on the next line - it is intentional]
Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
Directories: calc calendar emacs-lisp emulation eshell gnus international language mail mh-e net obsolete play progmodes term textmodes toolbar url
"./../bin/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l autoload \
        --eval '(setq find-file-hooks nil \
                find-file-suppress-same-file-warnings t \
                generated-autoload-file \
                  "/cygdrive/d/pub/emacs/emacs-21.3.50/lisp/loaddefs.el")' \
        -f batch-update-autoloads /cygdrive/d/pub/emacs/emacs-21.3.50/lisp calc calendar emacs-lisp emulation eshell gnus international language mail mh-e net obsolete play progmodes term textmodes toolbar url
Cannot open load file: autoload
Signal 127
make: *** [autoloads] Error 255
bash-2.05b$ ls auto*
autoarg.el     autoinsert.el  autorevert.el  


-Tak