font-lock not loaded

[Robert J. Chassell]

Today's CVS snapshot, 2002 Aug  17 00:09 UTC

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.174 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
configured using `configure --with-type1 --prefix=/usr/local --with-sound=yes'

font-lock.el[c] appears not to be loaded

so I receive a message saying

    Symbol's function defintion is void: font-lock-unfontify-buffer

and can no longer change buffer or do anything else.  Emacs dies.

When I evaluate 

    emacs/lisp/font-lock.el

by hand (as I did for this instance of Emacs), all is well. 

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Recent input:
C-g C-x C-b C-n C-n C-x o C-n C-n f C-x C-f l o a d 
d <tab> <return> C-s f o n t - l o <tab> <backspace> 
c k C-s C-s - u n C-s C-s C-a C-x d <return> C-s f 
i b t C-a C-s f i b t C-a C-g C-g C-s f o n t C-n C-n 
C-n C-SPC C-p C-SPC C-e M-w <home> C-g C-g s <escape> 
< C-n C-n C-n C-n C-SPC M-x e m <tab> M-b C-k b u g 
<tab> M-b C-k r e p <tab> o r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Quit [2 times]
Mark saved where search started
Mark set [2 times]
Quit [2 times]
Reading directory /usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/...done
Mark set [2 times]
Making completion list...
Loading help-mode...done
Making completion list...
Loading emacsbug...done