Re: pdumper bootstrap error

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 21:20:58 +0000
> From: Alan Third <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > > make[3]: Circular bootstrap-emacs <- temacs dependency dropped.
> > 
> > This warning is also worrisome: I don't get it, and I fail to see any
> > such circular dependency in my Makefile.  Maybe it's because macuvs.h
> > depends on bootstrap-emacs, and on macOS macuvs.h is indeed used?
> 
> This indeed looks like it’s probably the issue. I think I’ve had that
> message for as long as I’ve been building Emacs. I just assumed it was
> informational and not an actual error.
> 
> If I comment out this:
> 
> $(srcdir)/macuvs.h $(lispsource)/international/charprop.el: \
>   bootstrap-emacs$(EXEEXT) $(bootstrap_pdmp) FORCE
>       $(MAKE) -C ../admin/unidata all EMACS="../$(bootstrap_exe)"
> 
> the errors go away.

You mean, the problem with the wrong fingerprint also goes away?  If
so, perhaps the missing part of your build is because Make throws away
the dependency I've shown, and we need to rework the dependencies not
to cause this.