Ah yes, my bad, thanks for setting me straight. I've been out of this too long. Eli Zaretskii wrote on 4/13/24 09:05: > [Please use Reply All to reply, to keep the bug tracker CC'ed.] > > Forwarding to the bug tracker: > >> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 02:19:17 +0200 >> From: morf >> >> Thank you for responding. >> >> Yes, make bootstrap, did that already a couple of times, but I keep running into the same error. What is odd is >> that the byte-compile (see fragment in my post) of ox.el gives the line number, when manually trying to >> byte-compile org-element.el (the offender) I get no line number at all. Hmm. >> >> Will keep trying to figure out what is wrong here. I wonder where the tramp stuff enters. >> >> Eli Zaretskii wrote on 4/12/24 20:20: >> >> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:14:38 +0200 >> From: morf >> >> While wondering if this is the place to bring my issue, allow me to state it nevertheless. >> >> I was trying to compile emacs-29 from sources. However the build fails, and chokes on byte-compiling >> lisp/org/ox.el: >> >> ... >> make[3]: Entering directory '/home/bjd/mint/packages/emacs-mirror/lisp' >> '../src/emacs' -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --eval "(setq load-prefer-newer t byte-compile-warnings 'all)" -f >> batch-byte-compile org/ox.el >> >> In toplevel form: >> org/ox.el:82:2: Error: Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Eager macro-expansion failure: (error \"Eager >> macro-expansion failure: (error \\\"Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle: >> … => (load \\\\\\\"tramp-archive.el\\\\\\\") => (macroexpand-all …) => (macroexpand (eval-and-compile …)) => >> (load \\\\\\\"tramp-gvfs.el\\\\\\\") => (load \\\\\\\"tramp.el\\\\\\\") => (load \\\\\\\"tramp-archive.el\\\\\\\")\\\")\")") >> Makefile:332: recipe for target 'org/ox.elc' failed >> make[3]: *** [org/ox.elc] Error 1 >> make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/bjd/mint/packages/emacs-mirror/lisp' >> Makefile:383: recipe for target 'main-first' failed >> make[2]: *** [main-first] Error 2 >> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/bjd/mint/packages/emacs-mirror/lisp' >> Makefile:533: recipe for target 'lisp' failed >> make[1]: *** [lisp] Error 2 >> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/bjd/mint/packages/emacs-mirror' >> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/bjd/mint/packages/emacs-mirror' >> *** >> *** "make all" failed with exit status 2. >> ... >> >> I think this can be traced back to byte-compiling lisp/org/org-element.el; when I try to byte-compile that >> manually I do indeed get the error about Eager macro-expansion failure, but I am unsure what actually causes >> this failure. >> >> Comments? >> >> >> I cannot reproduce that. Suggest "make bootstrap".