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>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Buchholz <mrb@eng.sun.com> writes:

Martin> I figured out why XEmacs was unhappy with `make autoloads':
Martin> make autoloads adds entries to loaddefs.el for tm-edit.el,
Martin> which contains Japanese text in the docstring.  This causes
Martin> XEmacs to byte-compile loaddefs.el in a special form that
Martin> understands non-latin1 charsets.

A most brilliant deduction, that does indeed seem to be the problem. :-)

Martin> There are 2 problems with this:

Martin> - We can no longer share loaddefs.el between mule and non-mule
Martin>   XEmacsen.  But we have always done this - they share the
Martin>   same code base and build tree.

I don't want to let supporting XEmacs 20-latin1 become a nightmare.
There will be many people who will prefer to use it.  If at all
possible we must be able to share code.

Martin> - At bootstrap time, when loaddefs.elc is loaded, XEmacs
Martin>   hasn't loaded the mule .elc's yet, and so doesn't understand
Martin>   how to decode loaddefs.elc yet.  This is why XEmacs gets the
Martin>   spurious error

Martin> Loading loaddefs... (file loaddefs.el is newer)
        *** Error in XEmacs initialization
Martin> (setting-constant t hebrew-holidays-1)

Martin> Anyways, the Japanese text in the docstring for mime/editor-mode has
Martin> got to go.  Sorry, Tomohiko.  How about using Norwegian for the
Martin> example instead??  Latin-1 is OK.

I've taken it out of beta33.
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