John Paul Wallington wrote:
 
 Bob Bailey <rlbaileyjr(a)worldnet.att.net> wrote:
 
 > warnings during compilation. It appears as if the build is failing at
 > the point where temacs is processing keydefs.el
 [...]
 > Loading /home/bob/xemacs/xemacs-21.1.14/lisp/console.elc... (0)
 [...]
 > Loading /home/bob/xemacs/xemacs-21.1.14/lisp/keydefs.elc...*** Error in XEmacs
initialization
 > (void-function quit-char)
 > *** Backtrace
 >   really-early-error-handler((void-function quit-char))
 >   quit-char()
 
 `quit-char' is defined in console.elc.  If console.elc is
 zero-length then something is wrong; do you have a console.el?  Your
 dump-paths.elc appears to have suffered the same fate.
 
 --
 John Paul Wallington 
John Paul Wallington,
Thanks for the clues, but I still remain as in the dark as ever.
console.el exists and is 1618 bytes long. console.elc is indeed zero
length. Console.el is the same length in the downloaded tar file. I had
a quick look and it looks reasonable.
dump-paths.elc exists and is 1341 bytes long
dump-paths.el exists and is 2434 bytes long
I have attached to 2 .el files in question.
Bob
;;; console.el --- miscellaneous console functions not written in C
;; Copyright (C) 1994-5, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Ben Wing
;; Maintainer: XEmacs Development Team
;; Keywords: internal, dumped
;; This file is part of XEmacs.
;; XEmacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
;; any later version.
;; XEmacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
;; General Public License for more details.
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;; along with XEmacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the 
;; Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
;;; Synched up with: Not in FSF.
;;; Commentary:
;; This file is dumped with XEmacs.
;;; Code:
(defun quit-char (&optional console)
  "Return the character that causes a QUIT to happen.
This is normally C-g.  Optional arg CONSOLE specifies the console
that the information is returned for; nil means the current console."
  (nth 3 (current-input-mode console)))
(defun resume-pid-console (pid)
  "Resume the consoles with a controlling process of PID."
  (mapc (lambda (c) 
	  (if (and (eq (console-type c) 'tty)
		   (eql pid (console-tty-controlling-process c)))
	      (resume-console c)))
	(console-list))
  nil)
;;; console.el ends here
;; dump-paths.el --- set up XEmacs paths for dumping
;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1992, 1994, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Maintainer: XEmacs Development Team
;; Keywords: internal, dumped
;; This file is part of XEmacs.
;; XEmacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
;; any later version.
;; XEmacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
;; General Public License for more details.
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;; along with XEmacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
;; Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
;; 02111-1307, USA.
;;; Synched up with: Not in FSF
;;; Commentary:
;; This sets up the various paths for continuing loading files for
;; dumping.
(let ((debug-paths (or debug-paths
		      (and (getenv "EMACSDEBUGPATHS")
			   t)))
      (roots (paths-find-emacs-roots invocation-directory
				     invocation-name)))
  (if debug-paths
      (princ (format "XEmacs thinks the roots of its hierarchy are:\n%S\n"
		     roots)))
  (let ((stuff (packages-find-packages roots)))
    (setq late-packages (car (cdr stuff))))
  (setq late-package-load-path (packages-find-package-load-path late-packages))
  (if debug-paths
      (progn
	(princ (format "configure-package-path:\n%S\n" configure-package-path)
	       'external-debugging-output)
	(princ (format "late-packages and late-package-load-path:\n%S\n%S\n"
		       late-packages late-package-load-path)
	       'external-debugging-output)))
  (setq lisp-directory (paths-find-lisp-directory roots))
  (if debug-paths
      (princ (format "lisp-directory:\n%S\n" lisp-directory)
	     'external-debugging-output))
  (setq site-directory (and (null inhibit-site-lisp)
			    (paths-find-site-lisp-directory roots)))
  (if (and debug-paths (null inhibit-site-lisp))
      (princ (format "site-directory:\n%S\n" site-directory)
	     'external-debugging-output))
  (setq load-path (paths-construct-load-path roots
					     '()
					     late-package-load-path
					     '()
					     lisp-directory
					     site-directory)))
;;; dump-paths.el ends here