From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 22308@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22308: intermittent problem generating autoloads
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 05:40:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k2no66e6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fga8okajw8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:35:03 -0500)
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:35:03 -0500
>
> There is some kind of heisenbug that shows up with autoload generation
> from time-to-time. It occurs in non-parallel builds (so a parallel make
> problem is not the cause).
>
> See some examples:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-11/msg01610.html
> GEN loaddefs.el
> End of file during parsing
>
> http://hydra.nixos.org/build/29135353/log/raw
> GEN calendar/diary-loaddefs.el
> Loading macroexp.elc...
> cal-julian.el:0:0: error: end-of-file: nil
> make[3]: *** [calendar/diary-loaddefs.el] Error 255
When that happens, do you see binary null bytes in the autoloads file?
> (The above error persisted for two builds, then went away for no
> apparent reason.)
This stopped happening for me since the undo issues were fixed on the
emacs-25 branch. I thought that was what fixed these.
I cannot debug this unless it happens again.
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2016-01-05 1:35 bug#22308: intermittent problem generating autoloads Glenn Morris
2016-01-05 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-01-05 17:39 ` Glenn Morris
2016-01-05 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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