Error incrementally compiling Emacs

Error incrementally compiling Emacs

[Alessandro Bertulli]

Hi all!

I'm trying to upgrade my Emacs. Being on Arch, I have a PKGBUILD script
from AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/emacs-git) to build the git
version. Issuing the compilation invokes the package build system, in
this case IIUC `make`, and all should be well. However, I have some
errors:

From stderr:
Source file ‘/home/alessandro/Downloads/AUR/emacs-git/src/emacs-git/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.el’ newer than byte-compiled file; using older file
Source file ‘/home/alessandro/Downloads/AUR/emacs-git/src/emacs-git/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.el’ newer than byte-compiled file; using older file
Source file ‘/home/alessandro/Downloads/AUR/emacs-git/src/emacs-git/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.el’ newer than byte-compiled file; using older file
Source file ‘/home/alessandro/Downloads/AUR/emacs-git/src/emacs-git/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.el’ newer than byte-compiled file; using older file

In toplevel form:
../../lisp/emacs-lisp/cconv.el:88:2: Error: Wrong type argument: stringp, (#<buffer  *Compiler Output*>)
make[3]: *** [Makefile:322: ../../lisp/emacs-lisp/cconv.elc] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Source file ‘/home/alessandro/Downloads/AUR/emacs-git/src/emacs-git/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.el’ newer than byte-compiled file; using older file

In toplevel form:

```

../../lisp/emacs-lisp/macroexp.el:31:2: Error: Wrong type argument: stringp, (#<buffer  *Compiler Output*>)
make[3]: *** [Makefile:322: ../../lisp/emacs-lisp/macroexp.elc] Error 1

In toplevel form:
../../lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el:75:2: Error: Invalid function: (#<buffer  *Compiler Output*>)
make[3]: *** [Makefile:322: ../../lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.elc] Error 1

In toplevel form:
../../lisp/emacs-lisp/comp.el:206:2: Error: Invalid function: (#<buffer  *Compiler Output*>)
make[3]: *** [Makefile:322: ../../lisp/emacs-lisp/comp.elc] Error 1

In toplevel form:
../../lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el:161:2: Error: Invalid function: (#<buffer  *Compiler Output*>)
make[3]: *** [Makefile:322: ../../lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc] Error 1
make[2]: *** [Makefile:915: bootstrap-emacs.pdmp] Error 2
make[1]: *** [Makefile:542: src] Error 2
***
*** "make all" failed with exit status 2.
***
*** You could try to:
*** - run "make bootstrap", which might fix the problem
*** - run "make V=1", which displays the full commands invoked by make,
***   to further investigate the problem
***
make[1]: *** [Makefile:413: advice-on-failure] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:370: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

```

However, if I tweaked the script correctly, this is already the build
with `V=1`. I can rebuild the entire thing with `make bootstrap`, and it
would probably fix the problem, but I'd lose the precompiled files.

Do you know what can be the issue? Is this the right place to ask? Do
you know what I can further investigate?

Thanks!

-- 
Alessandro Bertulli

Re: Error incrementally compiling Emacs

[Po Lu]

Alessandro Bertulli <alessandro.bertulli96@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all!
>
> I'm trying to upgrade my Emacs. Being on Arch, I have a PKGBUILD script
> from AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/emacs-git) to build the git
> version. Issuing the compilation invokes the package build system, in
> this case IIUC `make`, and all should be well. However, I have some
> errors:

You have to:

  rm lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc

(or "make bootstrap".)

Re: Error incrementally compiling Emacs

[Alessandro Bertulli]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> You have to:
>
>   rm lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc
>
> (or "make bootstrap".)

Thanks, I'll try. But why do I need to do that? Shouldn't I do the same also
for other .elc error throwing files?

-- 
Alessandro Bertulli

Re: Error incrementally compiling Emacs

[Alessandro Bertulli]

In case this was useful: I tried updating all of the .elc files (using
M-x byte-recompile-directory), and some of the errors went away.
However, others were still there, so I ended up doing a 'make
bootstrap' anyway. This got Emacs compiled correctly (even if the
'make check' target fails, but I suppose this is actually an upstream
issue).

--
Alessandro Bertulli