From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11519: "Wrong type argument: characterp" building custom-deps while boostrapping Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 21:49:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83d360yw48.fsf@gnu.org> <834nrazrtl.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337564974 7258 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2012 01:49:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 01:49:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , 11519@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 03:49:33 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 1SWHka-0003AO-NR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 03:49:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52362 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWHka-0003Hf-9P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 21:49:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33342) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWHkW-0003HO-U7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 21:49:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWHkV-0005Py-AU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 21:49:28 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:54633) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWHkV-0005Pt-6x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 21:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SWHl3-0005dZ-Qs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 21:50:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 01:50:01 +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=B11519.133756498721643 (code B ref 11519); Mon, 21 May 2012 01:50:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11519) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 May 2012 01:49:47 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35946 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SWHkp-0005d2-7q for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 21:49:47 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.143.162]:51741) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SWHkn-0005cq-Nv for 11519@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 21:49:45 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAOMAh0/O+K+j/2dsb2JhbAA3o0KBCIF1AQEEAVYeBQULCzQSFBgNJIgTohGLcCgQPAkDAQKDPgODcASjY4RY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,1,1325480400"; d="scan'208";a="181527690" Original-Received: from 206-248-175-163.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.175.163]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 20 May 2012 21:49:05 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9EB56660E0; Sun, 20 May 2012 21:49:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <834nrazrtl.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 20 May 2012 20:27:02 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) 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:60243 Archived-At: > 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 guess the best options is to change the makefile so it sets debug-on-error (and/or starts Emacs under a debugger) in the area of interest and hope that the problem will still show up. Stefan