From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Basil Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: 63260@debbugs.gnu.org, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Subject: bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads
Date: Fri, 05 May 2023 08:36:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lei3nv24.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zg6kysao.fsf@tcd.ie> (Basil Contovounesios's message of "Thu, 04 May 2023 18:28:47 +0200")
>>>>> On Thu, 04 May 2023 18:28:47 +0200, Basil Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie> said:
Basil> Robert Pluim [2023-05-04 17:15 +0200] wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, 04 May 2023 12:15:15 +0200, Basil Contovounesios via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> said:
>>
Bug> This change:
>>
Basil> Prevent generating empty autoload files
Basil> dd21003878d 2023-04-30 18:42:58 +0200
Basil> https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=dd21003878d
>>
Basil> seems to have reintroduced the following issue:
>>
Basil> https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2022-06/msg00563.html
>>
Basil> First start Emacs 29 (or 30) with a clean slate:
>>
Basil> $ cd "$(mktemp --directory)"
Basil> $ export HOME="${PWD}" XDG_CONFIG_HOME="${PWD}/.config"
Basil> $ emacs
>>
Basil> Then try to install the sicp package (which lacks autoloads) from MELPA:
>>
Basil> 0. C-x b RET
Basil> 1. (setq package-archives '(("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")))
Basil> C-x C-e
Basil> 2. M-x package-install RET sicp RET
Basil> 3. C-h e
Basil> 4. C-M-S-v
>>
>> Only when `package-quickstart' is non-nil, right?
Basil> No, this is in an empty user-emacs-directory, i.e. with the default
Basil> package-quickstart = nil. Besides, package-quickstart does not come
Basil> into play during package-install AFAICT.
Right. My testing was faulty
Basil> This does not address the file-missing error during package activation,
Basil> but it allows a subsequent package-quickstart-refresh to complete
Basil> (albeit with a warning in a *Compile-Log*):
The file-missing error is expected, no? Thatʼs why the autoloads
loading is wrapped in `with-demoted-errors'. Although if the message bothers
you, I guess we could check `file-exists-p' for it.
Basil> Compiling file /tmp/tmp.6cdF8paE0K/.emacs.d/package-quickstart.el
Basil> at Thu May 4 18:24:07 2023
Basil> Entering directory ‘/tmp/tmp.6cdF8paE0K/.emacs.d/’
Basil> package-quickstart.el:4:2: Warning: Empty let body
Basil> due to the following generated contents of package-quickstart-file:
Basil> (let ((load-true-file-name nil)(load-file-name nil))
Basil> )
Iʼd claim ENOCOFFEE for the last patch, but it was not the morning :-)
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
index 0919ce34448..4b488281b78 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
@@ -4491,11 +4491,11 @@ package-quickstart-refresh
(insert ";;; Quickstart file to activate all packages at startup -*- lexical-binding:t -*-\n")
(insert ";; ¡¡ This file is autogenerated by `package-quickstart-refresh', DO NOT EDIT !!\n\n")
(dolist (pkg package--quickstart-pkgs)
- (let* ((file
- ;; Prefer uncompiled files (and don't accept .so files).
- (let ((load-suffixes '(".el" ".elc")))
- (locate-library (package--autoloads-file-name pkg))))
- (pfile (prin1-to-string file)))
+ (when-let* ((file
+ ;; Prefer uncompiled files (and don't accept .so files).
+ (let ((load-suffixes '(".el" ".elc")))
+ (locate-library (package--autoloads-file-name pkg))))
+ (pfile (prin1-to-string file)))
(insert "(let ((load-true-file-name " pfile ")\
\(load-file-name " pfile "))\n")
(insert-file-contents file)
Robert
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-04 10:15 bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads Basil Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-04 15:15 ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-04 16:28 ` Basil Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-05 6:36 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2023-05-06 9:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-06 12:51 ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-06 13:12 ` Basil Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-06 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-07 10:59 ` Basil Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-06 13:10 ` Basil Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-06 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-07 9:46 ` Basil Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-07 10:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-07 12:39 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-07 12:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-07 13:12 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-07 13:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-07 19:37 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-08 11:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-08 13:15 ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-08 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-08 13:23 ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-10 13:12 ` Basil Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-10 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-12 7:43 ` Philip Kaludercic
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