Subject: Re: bug#25360: File mode specification errors during building

From: Andy Moreton <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 12:07:41 +0000

On Sun 05 Mar 2017, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 18:58:52 -0000
>> From: "Phillip Lord" <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> 
>> In the mean time, try stuffing this:
>> 
>> (autoload 'w32-convert-standard-filename "w32-fns.el" nil nil nil)
>> 
>> into ldefs-boot-auto.el. generate-ldefs-boot adds this for me anyway. If
>> it works for you, I can add this to master quicker than I can revert.
>
> Why would that change anything?  ldefs-boot-manual.el already includes
> that line, so ldefs-boot-auto.el doesn't have to, right?

Adding this to does not remove the build failures, so Eli is correct.

What is needed is to revert the changes that caused this regression in
the build machinery.

    AndyM