From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Shuguang Sun <shuguang79@qq.com>
Cc: 53678@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53678: 29.0.50; Invalid read syntax: "#<" for package install in Windows
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 20:15:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YfmU9KvUO5cbRQD7@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yjinleyvp2xw.fsf@qq.com>
Hello, Shuguang.
On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 13:32:11 +0800, Shuguang Sun wrote:
> Hi,
> When I try to install packages from the Package Menu or the command of
> package-install since about two weeks ago, it reports the error:
> ```
> error in process sentinel: async-when-done: Invalid read syntax: "#<"
> error in process sentinel: Invalid read syntax: "#<"
> ```
> And it seems not preventing the installation process but stops the emacs
> to compile the el files to elc.
"#<" looks like the start of a symbol with position, something like
"#<symbol foo at 666>" which is being returned by the reader recently
when invoked from the byte compiler.
The new mechanism for compilation warning positions was merged into the
Emacs master on Saturday 2022-01-22, which matches up pretty well with
your "since about two weeks ago, ...".
> FYI. I failed to find out what makes it. It looks like the local variable in
> the autoloads file generated by the package process. It add
> `;; coding: utf-8-emacs-unix`, however, in windows, the file is probablly
> in a coding of utf-8-emacs-dos. When I try to open the autoload file,
> Emacs can't regonize the major mode which assumes to be `emacs-lisp-mode`.
> Unless I change the `;; coding: utf-8-emacs-unix` to
> `;; coding: utf-8-emacs`, it can be open in the `emacs-lisp-mode`.
> Best Regards,
> Shuguang Sun
> In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
> of 2022-01-31 built on YJ190169-SSG
> Repository revision: 04f9c3b8df6afaf1e9de9f2a4478f63fd959bf09
> Repository branch: master
> Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19044
> System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (v10.0.2009.19044.1466)
> Configured using:
> 'configure --without-pop --with-native-image-api
> --with-native-compilation --without-compress-install
> '--program-transform-name=s/^ctags$/ctags.emacs/''
> Configured features:
> ACL DBUS GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES
> NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF
> TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS WEBP XPM ZLIB
> Important settings:
> value of $LANG: CHS
> locale-coding-system: cp936
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-01 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-01 5:32 bug#53678: 29.0.50; Invalid read syntax: "#<" for package install in Windows Shuguang Sun via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-01 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-01 19:00 ` Arash Esbati
2022-02-02 3:32 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
[not found] ` <yjinleyvp2xw.fsf@qq.com>
2022-02-01 20:15 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2022-03-24 1:03 ` Shuguang Sun via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-24 1:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-02-03 2:55 ` Shuguang Sun via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-03 19:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-02-06 2:19 ` Shuguang Sun via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-06 4:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
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