Re: "make autoloads" fails

[Angelo Graziosi]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> "make autoloads" works for me (Fedora 17, GCC 4.8.1, x86-64)
> for the latest Emacs trunk (bzr 113225).  So I suspect the
> problem is platform-dependent.

Jan Djärv wrote
> A clean checkout on OSX fails on make bootstrap:
[...]
> Is it possible that existing trees work fine, but new one fails?

On Cygwin r. 113227 fails to bootstrap:
[...]
Wrote /work/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.elc
make[3]: uscita dalla directory "/work/emacs/Work/lisp"
cd ../lisp; /usr/bin/make -w autoloads 
EMACS=/work/emacs/Work/src/bootstrap-emacs.exe
make[3]: ingresso nella directory "/work/emacs/Work/lisp"
EMACSLOADPATH=/work/emacs/lisp LC_ALL=C 
/work/emacs/Work/src/bootstrap-emacs.exe -batch --no-site-file 
--no-site-lisp -l autoload \
   --eval "(setq generate-autoload-cookie \";;;###cal-autoload\")" \
   --eval "(setq generated-autoload-file (unmsys--file-name 
\"/work/emacs/lisp/calendar/cal-loaddefs.el\"))" \
   --eval "(setq make-backup-files nil)" \
   -f batch-update-autoloads /work/emacs/lisp/calendar
Loading macroexp.elc...
Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
Makefile:418: recipe for target 
`/work/emacs/lisp/calendar/cal-loaddefs.el' failed
make[3]: *** [/work/emacs/lisp/calendar/cal-loaddefs.el] Error 255
make[3]: uscita dalla directory "/work/emacs/Work/lisp"
Makefile:818: recipe for target `/work/emacs/src/../lisp/loaddefs.el' failed
make[2]: *** [/work/emacs/src/../lisp/loaddefs.el] Error 2
make[2]: uscita dalla directory "/work/emacs/Work/src"
Makefile:381: recipe for target `src' failed
make[1]: *** [src] Error 2
make[1]: uscita dalla directory "/work/emacs/Work"
Makefile:992: recipe for target `bootstrap' failed
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
build-emacs.sh: Bootstrap failure...

Notice that r113214 (two days ago) bootstraps fine.

I would suggest to bootstrap in a clean tree.

Usally I have a local copy of trunk BZR repo and to bootstrap I do

rsync -av --exclude=.bzr* --exclude=.g* --delete /work/emacs-trunk/ 
/work/emacs/

cd /work/emacs/
./autogen.sh
mkdir Work
cd Work
../configure ...
make [-j3] bootstrap
etc..

Ciao,
Angelo.