From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22308: intermittent problem generating autoloads Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:35:03 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451957777 28421 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2016 01:36:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 01:36:17 +0000 (UTC) To: 22308@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 02:36:09 2016 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 1aGGXg-0005q6-RQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 02:36:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47730 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGGXf-0003AD-JJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:36:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49714) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGGXb-0003A8-Qp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:36:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGGXa-0007Lk-R2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:36:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:49767) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGGXa-0007Lg-Nb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:36:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aGGXa-0004VC-J9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:36:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:36:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 22308 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: submit@debbugs.gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.145195771217244 (code B ref -1); Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:36:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Jan 2016 01:35:12 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37987 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aGGWl-0004U3-V9 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:35:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58580) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aGGWk-0004Tr-4M for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:35:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGGWd-00073O-SQ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:35:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42889) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGGWd-000739-OI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:35:03 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aGGWd-0006OB-6H; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:35:03 -0500 X-Spook: top secret counter intelligence Trafficking Calderon X-Ran: :0fwUH13>Tc#wclp?;bZ1;y5gP'2.~L:gHE;9D:G|M!p:mfs}gD=Y}XHTpNbu~'@34_Sa9 X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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:111220 Archived-At: Package: emacs Version: 25.0.50 There is some kind of heisenbug that shows up with autoload generation from time-to-time. It occurs in non-parallel builds (so a parallel make problem is not the cause). See some examples: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-11/msg01610.html GEN loaddefs.el End of file during parsing http://hydra.nixos.org/build/29135353/log/raw GEN calendar/diary-loaddefs.el Loading macroexp.elc... cal-julian.el:0:0: error: end-of-file: nil make[3]: *** [calendar/diary-loaddefs.el] Error 255 (The above error persisted for two builds, then went away for no apparent reason.) http://hydra.nixos.org/build/29917548/log/raw ELC calendar/appt.elc Eager macro-expansion failure: (void-variable cal-iso\.el) In toplevel form: calendar/appt.el:73:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: cal-iso\.el (I guess the cause of the above was a corrupt diary-loaddefs.) I have no idea what causes it, nor why it only happens sometimes. I guess adding some more debug code to the autoload generation that looks out for such issues is the way to get more information.