Re: loaddefs.el has no effect

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "RGB" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 18:42:23 -0500
> 
> >> When I build Emacs I want some additional major modes to be part of the 
> >> build.
> >> Previously I just put the additional mode files in \lisp\progmodes and 
> >> rebuild.
> >> I pretty much always just do a BOOTSTRAP build.
> >> 
> >> Something has changed in the last month or two because this doesn't work 
> >> any more.
> >> loaddefs.el *does* contain the autoload commands for the new modes but 
> >> Emacs doesn't recognize the mode commands.
> >> If I manually do (load "loaddefs") then it works.
> > 
> > Sounds like Emacs uses loaddefs.el that's just a copy of
> > ldefs-boot.el.  The question is, why?
> > 
> > Can you post a full transcript of a "make bootstrap" session? 
> 
> Having looked at the output I sent earlier myself I can't figure out how
> the symptoms I'm seeing could possibly be happening.  It says loaddefs.el 
> gets rebuilt successfully and then it says it's loading it just before the 
> final dump.

Yes, indeed.  But then you didn't show any problems with autoloading
in this transcript, either.  Are you sure that the same emacs.exe
binary that was produced by the bootstrap whose build transcript you
posted was the binary that failed to autoload your additional modes?
Could it be that you saw the problem in another binary?