Re: 23.0.60; bootstrap broken by removal of cal-loaddefs.el

[Andrew W. Nosenko]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Tim Van Holder <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Tim Van Holder
>  <address@hidden> wrote:
>  >
>  >  Ever since the removal of cal-loaddefs from CVS, I had gotten lisp
>  >  compilation errors during my more-or-less-daily rebuild. They seemed
>  >  harmless enough (especially since I don't actually use the calendar),
>  >  but this morning I decided to go for a full bootstrap to (hopefully)
>  >  make them go away.
>  >  Unfortunately, it looks like the bootstrap does not generate the file in
>  >  time for the full lisp compilations, so I received
>  >
>  >  Compiling /home/tim/gnu/src/emacs/lisp/./gnus/yenc.el
>  >  Wrote /home/tim/gnu/src/emacs/lisp/gnus/yenc.elc
>  >  Compiling /home/tim/gnu/src/emacs/lisp/./calendar/appt.el
>  >
>  >  In toplevel form:
>  >  ../../../../src/emacs/lisp/calendar/appt.el:79:1:Error: Cannot open load 
> file: cal-loaddefs
>  >  make[2]: *** [compile] Error 1
>  >  make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tim/gnu/build/linux/emacs/lisp'
>  >  make[1]: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2
>  >  make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tim/gnu/build/linux/emacs'
>  >  make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
>  >
>  >  It's worked around easily enough (I just fetched the last version from
>  >  CVS), but should probably be fixed.
>  >
>  >
>  >  In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
>  >   of 2008-03-14 on leeloo
>  >  Windowing system distributor `RealVNC Ltd', version 11.0.3370
>  >  configured using `configure  '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-x' 
> '--with-freetype' '--with-xft' '--with-libotf''
>
>  Sorry for replying to myself here, but the same goes for the two other 
> calendar
>  loaddefs (diary-loaddefs and hol-loaddefs). They need to exist for
>  bootstrap to work,
>  and the bootstrap process does NOT regenerate them at any point (nor does a
>  "make recompile updates" in lisp/, which I run as part of my daily
>  rebuild-from-CVS).
>  So it looks as though the Makefile.in in lisp/ has not been correctly
>  instrumented to
>  create them.

You don't need to fetching now deleted *-loaddefs.
Try to regenerate lisp/Makefile (just by calling 'configure' or by
moving old lisp/Makefile awaiy followed by 'configure' call).

At least it worked for me.

-- 
Andrew W. Nosenko <address@hidden>