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File mode specification errors during building

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From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25360: File mode specification errors during building
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 18:26:44 +0000

On Sat 04 Mar 2017, Phillip Lord wrote:

>>>
>>
>> I still see these errors while building master.  Here's the latest
>> incarnation:
>>
>>
>> Finding pointers to doc strings...
>> Finding pointers to doc strings...done
>> Dumping under the name emacs
>> Dump memory usage: Heap: 9498624  Large blocks(0/1): 0/786448
>> Dumping from d:/gnu/git/emacs/trunk/src/temacs.exe
>> to d:/gnu/git/emacs/trunk/src/emacs.exe 49515 pure bytes used
>> mv -f emacs.exe bootstrap-emacs.exe make -C ../lisp compile-first
>> EMACS="../src/bootstrap-emacs.exe"
>> make[2]: Entering directory `/d/gnu/git/emacs/trunk/lisp'
>> GEN      mh-e/mh-loaddefs.el
>> Symbol's function definition is void: w32-convert-standard-filename
>> Directories for loaddefs: . ./calc ./calendar ./cedet ./cedet/ede
>> ./cedet/semantic ./cedet/semantic/analyze ./cedet/semantic/bovine
>> ./cedet/semantic/decorate ./cedet/semantic/symref ./cedet/semantic/wisent
>> ./cedet/srecode ./emacs-lisp ./emulation ./erc ./eshell ./gnus ./image
>> ./international ./language ./leim ./leim/ja-dic ./leim/quail ./mail
>> ./mh-e ./net ./nxml ./org ./play ./progmodes ./textmodes ./url ./vc
>> GEN      loaddefs.el
>> Symbol's function definition is void: w32-convert-standard-filename
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/d/gnu/git/emacs/trunk/lisp'
>>
>>
>> The build succeeds nonetheless.  Moreover, if I repeat the offending
>> command ("make autoloads") manually, there are no error messages.
>> w32-convert-standard-filename is defined in w32-fns.el, which is preloaded
>> by loadup.el, so I don't understand this error message, and am unable to
>> debug it because I cannot reproduce if if I run the same commands by hand.
>> It could be related to the fact that we use an
>> emacs executable that overflowed the pure storage (see the "49515 pure
>> bytes used" message).
>>
>> Can we please fix this annoyance?  (And no, I don't want to bootstrap,
>> because this deletes all the old binaries I keep for testing.  And I
>> already tried "make generate-ldefs-boot", it didn't help.)
>
>
> Yes, I will revert to the old system. Nice idea, but it isn't working.
> I'll try and find time as quickly as possible.

Please do. I see the same messages about w32-convert-standard-filename,
but in my case the build always fails.

    AndyM

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