Re: loaddefs.el has no effect

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "RGB" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:05:38 -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?  If you
have a ported tee.exe, one way of producing it would be like this:

          make 2>&2 | tee -a > transcript