Re: Splitting and moving generic.el.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:58:02 +0100
> 
> "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >
> > It's an annoyance, yes.  But the build process runs
> > list-load-path-shadows that should pinpoint such stale *.elc files.
> > Doesn't it work for you?
> 
> I think the problem was that I was not running make bootstrap, due to
> the fact that it takes a long time

list-load-path-shadows is run in a normal build as well, not only
during bootstrap.

> and also something in my
> environment has changed in the last couple of months that causes it to
> fail while creating loaddefs.el with "Invalid escape sequence".

Perhaps this loaddefs.el error caused the build to abort before it got
to running list-load-path-shadows.