From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11519: "Wrong type argument: characterp" building custom-deps while boostrapping Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 05:50:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83396uz1q6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d360yw48.fsf@gnu.org> <834nrazrtl.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337568696 27656 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2012 02:51:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 02:51:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, 11519@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 04:51:35 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SWIia-0003ox-UW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 04:51:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32771 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWIia-0002YQ-Bg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 22:51:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44893) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWIiX-0002Xv-Hf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 22:51:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWIiV-0003zp-OC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 22:51:29 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:54676) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWIiV-0003zh-Ka for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 22:51:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SWIj4-00074z-D7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 22:52:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 02:52:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11519 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11519-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11519.133756868027149 (code B ref 11519); Mon, 21 May 2012 02:52:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11519) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 May 2012 02:51:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35986 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SWIiO-00073q-Di for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 22:51:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:53599) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SWIiM-00073c-08 for 11519@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 22:51:19 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M4C00B00Q9PYM00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 11519@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 05:50:35 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.210.75]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M4C00BREQKBPIA0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Mon, 21 May 2012 05:50:35 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:60246 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Juanma Barranquero , 11519@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 21:49:02 -0400 > > > If you started looking, I think you can stop. It's a %$#@! > > heisenbug. If I add a single (message %s file) to > > custom-make-dependencies, it displays ethio-util.el as the last file > > name before the error. But adding another message makes the problem > > disappear, and the bootstrap runs flawlessly to completion. Likewise, > > running just "make custom-deps" with the emacs.exe built by the first > > stage of the bootstrap doesn't produce any errors. > > I guess the best options is to change the makefile so it sets > debug-on-error (and/or starts Emacs under a debugger) in the area of > interest and hope that the problem will still show up. I already tried the former (the problem went away). I'm guessing the latter will do the same. I will try to think about some trick, but frankly it's very frustrating, because any small change to cus-dep.el or the setup makes the problem go away.