[debbugs-tracker] bug#23920: closed (25.1.50; [elpa] Excorporate build failure on start-exco--fsm)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #23920,
regarding 25.1.50; [elpa] Excorporate build failure on start-exco--fsm
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> 25.1.50; [elpa] Excorporate build failure on start-exco--fsm
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> Fri, 08 Jul 2016 16:10:30 -0400
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> I'm filing a bug report to solve this GNU ELPA build failure:
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> Byte compiling packages/excorporate/excorporate.el
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> In toplevel form:
> packages/excorporate/excorporate.el:257:23:Error: Wrong type argument:
> listp, start-exco--fsm
> make[1]: *** [packages/excorporate/excorporate.elc] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/local/source/elpa'
> make: *** [all-in-place] Error 2
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> Thomas
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> Mario Lang <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Thomas Fitzsimmons <address@hidden> writes:
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> >> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
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> >>> On 07/08/2016 12:56 PM, Mario Lang wrote:
> >>>> Am I the only one how sees this error when trying to build elpa?
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> >>> No, I also see it, with a plain 'make' at the top level, using
> >>> emacs-25 Emacs, and compiling the current bleeding-edge ELPA (commit
> >>> a5d157b2e87427184f2c92a9b7bb9c99d6656aa1 dated June 30).That being
> >>> said, I am by no means an ELPA expert (I first tried to build it
> >>> today), and perhaps I am missing something too.
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> >> I see it too.  If I build packages/fsm before building
> >> packages/excorporate (by temporarily moving the directory out of
> >> packages/), I don't get the error.
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> > That seems to be it.  If I add the following line to the top-level
> > GNUMakefile, "make" manages to build excorporate.elc just fine (there are
> > other errors now, particularily with the rudel package).
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> > packages/excorporate/excorporate.elc: packages/fsm/fsm.elc
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> > So the problem seems to be that compilation order is relevant.  If fsm
> > is loaded uncompiled, it fails.
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> > I wonder if this is consider a bug in fsm.el, or if we shall add the
> > above quick fix to the GNUMakefile.
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> This is now fixed on master, by fsm.el 0.2.1.
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> Thomas
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