From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#63236: 29.0.90; loaddefs-generate not 100% backwards compatible Date: Wed, 03 May 2023 14:21:05 +0300 Message-ID: <83bkj1mzj2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87cz3ill2x.fsf@gmail.com> <871qjxlseb.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4784"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 63236@debbugs.gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 03 13:21:15 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1puAXq-0000zk-PR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1puAWv-0006YS-2m; Wed, 03 May 2023 07:20:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <871qjxlseb.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Wed, 03 May 2023 10:40:28 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:260972 Archived-At: > From: Robert Pluim > Date: Wed, 03 May 2023 10:40:28 +0200 > > >>>>> On Tue, 02 May 2023 19:06:14 +0200, Robert Pluim said: > > Robert> I attempted to upgrade my packages today using `list-packages', which > Robert> errored out when regenerating the autoloads for vlf-write.el: > > Robert> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (search-failed "\n\f\n;;;") > Robert> search-forward("\n\f\n;;;") > Robert> loaddefs-generate("/home/rpluim/.emacs.d/elpa/vlf-20191126.2250" "/home/rpluim/.emacs.d/elpa/vlf-20191126.2250/vlf-a..." nil "(add-to-list 'load-path (or (and load-file-name (f...") > Robert> package-generate-autoloads(vlf "/home/rpluim/.emacs.d/elpa/vlf-20191126.2250") > > The minimal patch I can come up with is this, which seems safe enough > but Iʼd appreciate it if someone who knows the code could comment Can you describe what was special in your use case, and explain why the original code didn't work in that case? Thanks.