bug#25360: File mode specification errors during building

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
>> Cc: rgm@gnu.org,  25360@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:08:55 +0000
>> 
>> So, the cause of the problem is this. bootstrap-emacs (nor emacs) does
>> not actually load loaddefs.el; it's just dumped with the binary. I was
>> recording autoloads until loaddefs.el was generated, but actually, I
>> need to record them till loaddefs.el is used, that is when emacs is
>> dumped.
>> 
>> The attached patch seems to address. Can you confirm, then I will apply
>> to master.
>
> Looks OK, but I guess the comment before the changed code needs to be
> updated as well?

Good catch!

I've pushed to master. We can close this if the next hydra build works
as expected.

Phil