Re: bootstrap error: "function definition is void: define-minor-mode"

[Glenn Morris]

Klaus Zeitler wrote:

> We build emacs here with a separate build directory (for different
> Unix flavors), but I've seen now that the lisp files will be
> compiled (and generated in the source tree). On 2nd thought this
> makes sense cause the lisp stuff is OS (version) independent.

I think it might be like that by accident though... :)

> This morning I wiped out the build directory, but not the source
> dir. Thus the broken loaddefs.el from yesterday was still there.
> Maybe I need to add a 'make clean' or some such to our build script.

Personally I strongly recommend `make maintainer-clean', unless the
extra CPU time it takes is a serious issue for you. If building for
multiple archs, you would only need to do this the first time.