VM-BUG:

[Mats Lidell]

>>>>> I wrote:

I> I don't get the same error when I try to recreate it on another
I> machine so the build problem might be a problem with the
I> smoketest. I'll have a look at it.

I had some elc-file-garbage in the xemacs-packages/vm-folder that
caused my reference build to work(!) When I removed these I got the
same problem as the smoketest. It seems to be an infinite recursive
require problem.

>From the smoketest:

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[...]
      Loading /home/matsl/work/smoketest/share/xemacs-21.5-b28/lisp/cus-face.elc...
  Requiring /home/matsl/work/smoketest/build/packages/xemacs-packages/mail-lib/sendmail.elc...
    Requiring /home/matsl/work/smoketest/build/packages/xemacs-packages/mail-lib/rfc822.elc...
Compiling /home/matsl/work/smoketest/build/packages/xemacs-packages/vm/lisp/vm-grepmail.el...
Loading /home/matsl/work/smoketest/share/xemacs-21.5-b28/lisp/cl-macs.elc...
Requiring /home/matsl/work/smoketest/build/packages/xemacs-packages/vm/lisp/vm-misc.el...
Requiring /home/matsl/work/smoketest/build/packages/xemacs-packages/vm/lisp/vm-undo.el...
Requiring /home/matsl/work/smoketest/build/packages/xemacs-packages/vm/lisp/vm-startup.el...
  Requiring /home/matsl/work/smoketest/build/packages/xemacs-packages/vm/vm.el...
    Requiring /home/matsl/work/smoketest/build/packages/xemacs-packages/vm/lisp/vm-startup.el...
      Requiring /home/matsl/work/smoketest/build/packages/xemacs-packages/vm/vm.el...
        Requiring /home/matsl/work/smoketest/build/packages/xemacs-packages/vm/lisp/vm-startup.el...
          Requiring /home/matsl/work/smoketest/build/packages/xemacs-packages/vm/vm.el...
            Requiring /home/matsl/work/smoketest/build/packages/xemacs-packages/vm/lisp/vm-startup.el...
              Requiring /home/matsl/work/smoketest/build/packages/xemacs-packages/vm/vm.el...
                Requiring /home/matsl/work/smoketest/build/packages/xemacs-packages/vm/lisp/vm-startup.el...
[***crash***]
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Looking into the .../vm/vm.el and .../lisp/vm-startup.el files it does
really look like an infinite recursion. .../vm/vm.el requires
vm-startup and .../lisp/vm-startup.el requires vm.

Yours
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%% Mats