error with 'make bootstrap' for generic-x.el

[Chris Moore]

I just ran a "cvs update" and a "make bootstrap" for the first time
in about a year.  The 'make bootstrap" failed, compiling
'generic-x.el':

    Compiling /home/chris/programs/emacs/lisp/./fringe.el
    Wrote /home/chris/programs/emacs/lisp/fringe.elc
    Compiling /home/chris/programs/emacs/lisp/./generic-x.el

    In toplevel form:
    generic-x.el:160:22:Warning: reference to free variable
        `apache-conf-generic-mode'
    [... more 'free variable' warnings deleted ...]
    generic-x.el:316:11:Error: Symbol's function definition is void:
generic-make-keywords-list
    make[1]: *** [compile] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chris/programs/emacs/lisp'
    make: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2

Inserting a single quote at the beginning of line 302:
  '(define-generic-mode bat-generic-mode
and running 'make bootstrap' again fixed the problem.  After that I
was able to remove the quote and recompile.  Function
generic-make-keywords-list is defined in generic.el.

Note that there are many calls to generic-make-keywords-list in that
file, but I only had to effectively remove one of them to get the file
to compile.  It looks like the call for bat-generic-mode is the only
one which is within a 'when' macro which contains more than just the
call to generic-make-keywords-list - there are a couple of defvars, a
bunch of defuns, a define-key and an 'unless' in there with it.  Could
that be causing the problem?

Chris.




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