Build broken

[Martin Lüthi]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-03-19 on yak
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
  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: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I checked out CVS emacs and building (make bootstrap) yields
(Thu Apr 24 11:29:58 AKDT 2003)

[---snip---]
../src/bootstrap-emacs -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l autoload --eval 
'(setq generated-autoload-file "/home/soft/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el")' -f 
batch-update-autoloads $wins
Directories: /home/soft/emacs/lisp /home/soft/emacs/lisp/net 
/home/soft/emacs/lisp/calc /home/soft/emacs/lisp/gnus 
/home/soft/emacs/lisp/mail /home/soft/emacs/lisp/mh-e 
/home/soft/emacs/lisp/play /home/soft/emacs/lisp/term 
/home/soft/emacs/lisp/emulation /home/soft/emacs/lisp/international 
/home/soft/emacs/lisp/calendar /home/soft/emacs/lisp/eshell 
/home/soft/emacs/lisp/toolbar /home/soft/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp 
/home/soft/emacs/lisp/textmodes /home/soft/emacs/lisp/progmodes 
/home/soft/emacs/lisp/language /home/soft/emacs/lisp/obsolete
File local-variables error: (error "Local variables entry is terminated 
incorrectly")
Loading vc-cvs (source)...
Generating autoloads for add-log.el...
Generating autoloads for add-log.el...done
Generating autoloads for add-log.el...
Generating autoloads for add-log.el...done
Generating autoloads for add-log.el...
Generating autoloads for add-log.el...done
Generating autoloads for add-log.el...
Generating autoloads for add-log.el...done

and so on in an endless loop.

Thanks

Martin

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