Subject: Re: bug#56998: 29.0.50; quail input methods broken (input-method-alist empty) on master (since 261d6afd6)

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2022 14:34:12 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> BTW, at neither of these points in time does leim-list.el exist,
>> regardless of load-path.
>
> _That's_ the problem.  Now the question becomes: why isn't it a
> prerequisite for the Emacs binary? it should be, IMO.

Please see "Comments on loaddefs generation" in lisp/Makefile.in in eg
emacs-28, in particular those relating to gen-lisp.
(Recent re-arrangements on master have changed things.)