From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [SUCCESS] broken bootstrap build on 2004 Mar 18 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:19:38 -0500 (EST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079888984 4560 80.91.224.253 (21 Mar 2004 17:09:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:09:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 21 18:09:36 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B56S8-0005dA-00 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:09:36 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B56S8-0003YY-00 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:09:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B56Rv-00060B-VG for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:09:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B56Rp-0005zL-AM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B56RJ-0005qO-9w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:09:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.114.245] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B56Qi-0005gO-8F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:08:15 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:19:38 -0500 (EST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: (bob@rattlesnake.com) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20687 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20687 Success in bootstrap build, with CVS snapshot of Sun, 2004 Mar 21 13:48 UTC The success is not from the new snapshot, but because of changes I made to `emacs/leim/leim-list.el'. On 2004 Mar 18 I reported a broken bootstrap build. It turns out that this resulted from corruption in the file `emacs/leim/leim-list.el'. Manually, I removed a good number of (register-input-method ... ) expressions from that file and it now loads without error and Emacs builds. The function `update-leim-list-file' was unable to clean up the corruption and did not report that it was failing. I do not know how the file got corrupted. Also, a separate issue, I found that `make clean' removes the `emacs' executable from `emacs/src' but that updating leim-list.el requires that `emacs' exist. The `emacs/src/emacs-21.3.50' did exist, so I could copy from it to `emacs' and that solved that bug. I am not sure quite what should be done about either problem, except to ask that someone who understands make files better than I to look into improving the error messages, please. For a long time I thought that the initial failure came from a bug in the autoloads since the last messages from the build were Loading vc-cvs... Loading vc-arch... Wrong type argument: stringp, nil make[2]: *** [autoloads] Error 255 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/emacs/lisp' which is misleading to someone like me. -- Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.teak.cc bob@rattlesnake.com