From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 39823@debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#39823: 26.3; update-directory-autoloads regression from Emacs 26 to Emacs 27
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:06:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8sz3d25.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83v9n88xmx.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:30:46 +0200")
Hello again,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 20:43:09 -0400
>> Cc: , 39823@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > Works on Emacs 26.3, but fails on Emacs 27.0.50, with the error message:
>> >
>> > Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
>>
>> The difference is that --eval now evaluates with lexical-binding
>> enabled, so the let-binding of generated-autoload-file is lexical unless
>> autoload.el, with its (defvar generated-autoload-file nil ...), has been
>> loaded.
>> [...]
>> See also https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2020-03/msg00173.html for
>> (much) more discussion on this.
>
> The "wrap with eval" trick suggested by Stefan in the latter
> discussion does work here:
>
> emacs --quick --batch --eval "(eval '(progn
> (let ((backup-inhibited t)
> (generated-autoload-file \"/tmp/toto\"))
> (update-directory-autoloads \"/tmp\"))))"
Oh, that's an interesting trick. I had not realized `eval' could be
switched to either lexical or dynamic (the default).
Thanks!
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-14 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-28 15:11 bug#39823: 26.3; update-directory-autoloads regression from Emacs 26 to Emacs 27 Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-13 0:43 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-13 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-14 2:06 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2020-03-13 23:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-03-14 2:03 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-17 11:48 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-14 3:34 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-17 2:16 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-19 1:46 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-08 3:55 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-04-08 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-08 16:41 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-04-08 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-19 3:13 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-04-19 12:19 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-06-22 4:10 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-06-22 15:07 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-06-23 20:42 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-09-30 15:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-01 17:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-01 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-01 18:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-02 2:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-02 17:54 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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