Subject: Re: bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 19:06:05 -0400

Juri Linkov wrote:

>> 5ec2115 seems to cause a build failure in some cases.
>> Ref https://hydra.nixos.org/build/128075429
>
> I tried to bootstrap several times, but can't reproduce the error.

I think doing a non-parallel build in a completely clean tree (not just
a bootstrap) should make it reproducible.

>   make -C leim all EMACS="../src/bootstrap-emacs"

> Source file `lisp/international/mule-util.el' newer than byte-compiled file; using older file

leim/Makefile.in should probably set load-prefer-newer,
as lisp/Makefile.in does.

> So the question is why loading mule-util.el produces this error?

Thanks to Andreas for answering that. Simply making ja-dic-cnv.el
require mule-util at top-level seems to avoid the problem?