Re: Emacs fails to bootstrap, gnus / mh-e related

[Andreas Schwab]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> I gather it's supposed to contain something more?

Yes, all mh-e autoloads.

> What is supposed to update it?

make mh-autoloads in lisp should update it.  But this will only work if you
already have a working emacs, of course.

> One thing that might be relevant:  My original command used make's -j4
> option (for parallel makes):  "make -j4 bootstrap".  When that failed, I
> redid it using a simple "make bootstrap", but perhaps if this file was
> somehow screwed up by the make -j4, and isn't being properly regenerated by
> "make bootstrap", that could be why it failed the 2nd time?

Quite possible.  Looks like the bootstrap emacs lacks all mh-e autoloads.

Andreas.

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