Re: autoload failure

[Guy Gascoigne - Piggford]

I was getting that when I ran emacs from the build directory rather than 
after running make install and then running that version.

Guy

Tak Ota wrote:

> When calling a function `grep' first time autoload fails by saying
> "Autoloading failed to define function grep".
>
> describe-function says `grep' is a function in `compile' instead of
> `grep'.  (indirect-function 'grep) returns (autoload "compile" 828127
> t nil)
>
> Manually performing (load-library "grep") fixes.
>
> Why does emacs think grep belongs to compile?
>
> -Tak
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