Subject: bug#4468: 23.1.50; FTBFS on OS X 10.5: Invalid function: define-obsolete-face-alias

From: Ian Eure <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:46:06 -0700

Git master fails to build from source on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. I’m
using rev 053af44c11552da70da31fe683f33c2af126b498.

Build fails with:

../lib-src/make-docfile -a ../etc/DOC -d /Users/ieure/Projects/emacs.git/src ../lisp/mouse.elc ../lisp/select.elc ../lisp/scroll-bar.elc ../lisp/ls-lisp.elc ../lisp/dos-fns.elc ../lisp/w32-fns.elc ../lisp/dos-w32.elc ../lisp/disp-table.elc ../lisp/dos-vars.elc ../lisp/tooltip.elc ../lisp/image.elc ../lisp/fringe.elc ../lisp/dnd.elc ../lisp/mwheel.elc ../lisp/tool-bar.elc ../lisp/x-dnd.elc ../lisp/international/ccl.elc ../lisp/international/fontset.elc ../lisp/mouse.elc ../lisp/term/common-win.elc ../lisp/term/x-win.elc ../lisp/term/pc-win.elc ../lisp/term/internal.elc ../lisp/term/ns-win.elc ../lisp/loaddefs.el ../lisp/abbrev.elc ../lisp/buff-menu.elc ../lisp/button.elc ../lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-run.elc ../lisp/composite.elc ../lisp/cus-face.elc ../lisp/cus-start.elc ../lisp/custom.elc ../lisp/emacs-lisp/backquote.elc ../lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.elc ../lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp.elc ../lisp/facemenu.elc ../lisp/faces.elc ../lisp/files.elc ../lisp/emacs-lisp/float-sup.elc ../lisp/format.elc ../lisp/frame.elc ../lisp/help.elc ../lisp/indent.elc ../lisp/isearch.elc ../lisp/rfn-eshadow.elc ../lisp/loadup.el ../lisp/bindings.elc ../lisp/emacs-lisp/map-ynp.elc ../lisp/env.elc ../lisp/international/mule.elc ../lisp/international/mule-conf.el ../lisp/international/mule-cmds.elc ../lisp/international/characters.elc ../lisp/case-table.elc ../lisp/language/chinese.el ../lisp/language/cyrillic.el ../lisp/language/indian.el ../lisp/language/sinhala.el ../lisp/language/english.el ../lisp/language/ethiopic.elc ../lisp/language/european.elc ../lisp/language/czech.el ../lisp/language/slovak.el ../lisp/language/romanian.el ../lisp/language/greek.el ../lisp/language/hebrew.el ../lisp/language/japanese.el ../lisp/language/korean.el ../lisp/language/lao.el ../lisp/language/cham.el ../lisp/language/tai-viet.el ../lisp/language/thai.el ../lisp/language/tibetan.elc ../lisp/language/vietnamese.el ../lisp/language/misc-lang.el ../lisp/language/utf-8-lang.el ../lisp/language/georgian.el ../lisp/language/khmer.el ../lisp/language/burmese.el ../lisp/menu-bar.elc ../lisp/paths.el ../lisp/register.elc ../lisp/replace.elc ../lisp/simple.elc ../lisp/minibuffer.elc ../lisp/startup.elc ../lisp/subr.elc ../lisp/term/tty-colors.elc ../lisp/font-core.elc ../lisp/emacs-lisp/syntax.elc ../lisp/font-lock.elc ../lisp/jit-lock.elc ../lisp/textmodes/fill.elc ../lisp/textmodes/page.elc ../lisp/textmodes/paragraphs.elc ../lisp/textmodes/text-mode.elc ../lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.elc ../lisp/vc-hooks.elc ../lisp/jka-cmpr-hook.elc ../lisp/ediff-hook.elc ../lisp/epa-hook.elc ../lisp/widget.elc ../lisp/window.elc ../lisp/version.el
LC_ALL=C `/bin/pwd`/temacs -batch -l loadup dump
Loading loadup.el (source)...
Using load-path (/Users/ieure/Projects/emacs.git/lisp)
Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run...
Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...
Loading subr...
Loading version.el (source)...
Loading widget...
Loading custom...
Loading emacs-lisp/map-ynp...
Loading cus-start...
Loading international/mule...
Loading international/mule-conf.el (source)...
Loading env...
Loading format...
Loading bindings...
Loading files...
Loading cus-face...
Loading faces...
Invalid function: define-obsolete-face-alias
make[1]: *** [emacs] Error 255
make: *** [src] Error 2

In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0, NS apple-appkit-949.54)
 of 2009-08-28 on black.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.949
configured using `configure  '--with-ns''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Python

Minor modes in effect:
  erc-track-mode: t
  erc-track-minor-mode: t
  erc-spelling-mode: t
  erc-ring-mode: t
  erc-pcomplete-mode: t
  erc-netsplit-mode: t
  erc-match-mode: t
  erc-button-mode: t
  erc-fill-mode: t
  erc-autojoin-mode: t
  erc-irccontrols-mode: t
  erc-noncommands-mode: t
  erc-readonly-mode: t
  erc-scrolltobottom-mode: t
  test-case-global-mode: t
  goto-address-prog-mode: t
  light-symbol-mode: t
  hl-line-mode: t
  which-function-mode: t
  yas/minor-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  ime-bindings: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  cua-mode: t
  auto-insert-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  size-indication-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:

Recent messages:
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Wrote /Users/ieure/Mail/drafts/*message*-20090917-124317
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Sending...done

Load-path shadows:
/Users/ieure/.emacs.d/ime-lisp/ime-dired hides /Users/ieure/.emacs.d/lisp/ime-dired
/Users/ieure/.emacs.d/lisp/json hides /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/json