From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How can I find the source of warnings in *Compile-Log*? Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:36:51 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87is29v4a9.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114547879 24039 80.91.229.2 (26 Apr 2005 20:37:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 26 22:37:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQWnW-0003RI-VX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:36:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQWtJ-0004wi-On for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:42:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQWrL-0003xw-77 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQWrK-0003xY-Fm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:40:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQWrK-0008GE-BQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:40:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DQWtd-00070A-Be for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DQWjd-0002ly-So for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:32:45 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:32:45 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:32:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87is29v4a9.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36418 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36418 Eric Hanchrow wrote: > I'm running CVS Emacs. I've noticed that whenever I start it, it > shows me a buffer named *Compile-Log*, whose content is always > > Warning: `error' called with 1 args to fill 0 format field(s) > Warning: `error' called with 1 args to fill 0 format field(s) > Warning: `error' called with 1 args to fill 0 format field(s) > Warning: `error' called with 1 args to fill 0 format field(s) > > I can't figure out how to find out what's causing those warnings. > I've been ignoring them for ages, to no noticeable ill effect, but > they're starting to annoy me ... any ideas for tracking down their > cause? The *Compile-Log* buffer is where byte compiler warnings and error messages are displayed, so something in your .emacs (or other initialization files) is byte-compiling some code. Usually the culprit is a defadvice form that specifies the compile flag. Those particular warnings mean there are 4 function calls in the code being compiled that look like this: (error "This doesn't contain any percent characters" arg-1) -- Kevin Rodgers