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From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Yasuhiro Kimura <yasu@utahime.org>
Cc: 50285@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50285: 28.0.50; Mew dosen't work correctly if .el files of Mew are native compiled
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 17:02:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwno2acdw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210831.053846.366902917792575747.yasu@utahime.org> (Yasuhiro Kimura's message of "Tue, 31 Aug 2021 05:38:46 +0900 (JST)")

> Following error message is displayed in the echo area.
> "error in process sentinel: Invalid function: mew-filter"

This error message indicates that a call to `mew-filter` was compiled as
a function call, while `mew-filter` is a macro.  This happens when
`mew-filter` is not defined at the time the call is compiled by
`bytecomp.el`.

When this problem shows up in a `.elc` file it means the `.elc` file was
miscompiled and the fault is usually attributed to the source code's
failure to make sure the macro was defined (e.g. by using (require 'mew-func)
somewhere earlier in the file).

In the present case, IIUC the `.elc` file itself is correct because
Mew's makefile compensates for the lack of (require 'mew-func) by using
an ad-hoc compilation script that makes sure the right files
(e.g. `mew-func`) are loaded as needed before the compilation of the
relevant code.

But the `.eln` file is not because when generating the `.eln` our code
starts again from the `.el` file and passes it again to `bytecomp.el`
but this time it's done outside of the control of the makefile, and it
so happens that `mew-func.el` was not loaded before compiling (again)
that call to `mew-filter`.

So we really have 3 problems here:

1- The code in Mew should not rely on the makefile rule for
   correct compilation.
   Fixing this would also make it easier to distribute Mew via ELPA
   (where a similar problem shows up since package.el will compile the
   .el files in an unspecified order which could thus result in the
   same kind of miscompilation).

2- The generation of the `.eln` file should start from the `.elc` file
   rather than from the `.el` file because we sometimes lack the
   information needed to correctly re-generate the `.elc` file from the
   `.el` file.


-- Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-30 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-30 20:38 bug#50285: 28.0.50; Mew dosen't work correctly if .el files of Mew are native compiled Yasuhiro Kimura
2021-08-30 21:02 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2021-08-31 12:05   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-31 19:01     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-11-30 17:05 ` Andrea Corallo
2022-08-22 19:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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