From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11519: "Wrong type argument: characterp" building custom-deps while boostrapping Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 20:27:02 +0300 Message-ID: <834nrazrtl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d360yw48.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337534915 11805 80.91.229.3 (20 May 2012 17:28:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 17:28:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 11519@debbugs.gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 20 19:28:34 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SW9vl-0005jO-NF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 19:28:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55461 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SW9vl-0007Yp-4J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 13:28:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39834) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SW9vi-0007Yi-Qy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 13:28:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SW9vh-0005Fi-4L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 13:28:30 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:54281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SW9vh-0005Fd-0j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 13:28:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SW9wD-0000EH-PK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 13:29:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 17:29:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11519 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11519-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11519.1337534897828 (code B ref 11519); Sun, 20 May 2012 17:29:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11519) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 May 2012 17:28:17 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35594 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SW9vB-0000Cf-VU for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 13:28:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:39073) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SW9ur-0000C8-FJ for 11519@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 13:27:56 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M4C008000F0JU00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 11519@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 20:26:57 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.210.75]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M4C007590GXIOH0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 20 May 2012 20:26:57 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:60236 Archived-At: > From: Juanma Barranquero > Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 23:40:06 +0200 > Cc: 11519@debbugs.gnu.org > > > Can you try finding out which file in lisp/language causes that, and > > on which line? > > Yes, but it is slow; it only happens on bootstraps. If you started looking, I think you can stop. It's a %$#@! heisenbug. If I add a single (message %s file) to custom-make-dependencies, it displays ethio-util.el as the last file name before the error. But adding another message makes the problem disappear, and the bootstrap runs flawlessly to completion. Likewise, running just "make custom-deps" with the emacs.exe built by the first stage of the bootstrap doesn't produce any errors. I will try a few more tricks; ideas for how to debug this, or where to look, are welcome. If you say that this started happening only lately, perhaps bisecting might give some insights. Thanks.