Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> It currently doesn't function due to the load error.  We could of course
>> just catch and not report load errors. But they do provide insight into
>> early-loading issues that may merit correction.  And this "silent approach"
>
> Yes, we should address the warning rather than mute all those warnings.
>
>> I do think a real question could be asked: how early should it be possible
>> to load a valid lisp file?
>
> That one's easy: the whole of `loadup.el` is made of a delicate
> ordering, so it's only after those files have been loaded that you're in
> safe territory.
>
> So, I guess this suggests we should build the \N{...} table before we
> build the `loaddefs.el` and that should be doable without any new
> bootstrap issue since we have `ldefs-boot.el` to solve that dependency.

Put some sturdy footwear on for the Makefile shrubbery, and came up with
the attached patch. It's for my Emacs only; I have no way of testing
this with all the other platforms, and all the ways Emacs can be built.
And I'm not sure that you would want the loaddefs-gen change either. And
blahblah :-).