bug#71775: 31.0.50; Symbol's function definition is void: file-name-sans-extension

[Andrea Corallo]

Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com>
>>> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:12:12 -0400
>>> 
>>> 
>>> After building and installing from master, from an empty build
>>> directory, without the -j to make, I cannot run emacs from the installed
>>> binary.
>>> 
>>>     $ emacs -Q
>>>     Loading loadup.el (source)...
>>>     Dump mode: nil
>>>     Using load-path (/usr/local/share/emacs/31.0.50/site-lisp
>>> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp /usr/local/share/emacs/31.0.50/lisp
>>> /usr/local/share/emacs/31.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp
>>> /usr/local/share/emacs/31.0.50/lisp/progmodes
>>> /usr/local/share/emacs/31.0.50/lisp/language
>>> /usr/local/share/emacs/31.0.50/lisp/international
>>> /usr/local/share/emacs/31.0.50/lisp/textmodes
>>> /usr/local/share/emacs/31.0.50/lisp/vc)
>>>     Loading emacs-lisp/debug-early...
>>>     Symbol's function definition is void: file-name-sans-extension
>>> 
>>> This problem does not happen if I run emacs from its build directory.
>>
>> This seems to indicate that Emacs can't find its pdumper file.  Is it
>> where it's supposed to be?  Are any of the installation directories
>> symlinks, perhaps?
>
> It appears to be in the right location.  For me the file is
> /usr/local/libexec/emacs/31.0.50/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/emacs-7613461fe6ed74f6f87f777c9c08b4ef65bda3f590e4a424624ddfd514cb2f81.pdmp,
> which is consistent with prior installations of emacs.  None of the
> directories are symlinks.
>
>> Also, are you sure you cleaned up the source tree before building?
>> Suggest to try "git clean -fdx" or a fresh clone.
>
> It looks like this did the trick.  I am embarrassed that I did not try
> this.  I'm so used to out-of-tree builds not changing (much) in the
> source directory.  Sorry for the report, and you can close this bug.
> (Though it might be worth putting something like this in PROBLEMS.)

No problem, I think PROBLEMS is more for Emacs releases (?) while
building from source on master is known sometime to require a tree
clean-up.

Closing meanwhile.

Thanks

  Andrea