Re: m68k "Invalid character:" build failure look familiar to anyone?

[Rob Browning]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Are you sure you've set both debug-on-error and byte-compile-debug
>> to non-nil values ?
>
> I thought so.  I know I did the first time above (when I had the split
> windown problem), but I'll try again when the testing machine is
> available again (apparently it's down for repair).

(One possibly relevant point -- Debian is using gcc 3.3 by default in
 unstable now (where this is being compiled), and I know there have
 been some issues with the new gcc.)

OK, the machine's back.  Here's *exactly* what I've done this time:

  $ tar xzf ../emacs21_21.3+1.orig.tar.gz
  # this is just the emacs 21.3 tar + the leim tar - the .elc files.

  $ cd emacs21-21.3
  $ ./configure \
      --with-x=yes \
      --with-x-toolkit=athena \
      --without-toolkit-scroll-bars \
        && make

make stops with the errors I reproduced previously

  ...
    !! error (("Invalid character: 037600000000, -33554432, 0xfe000000"))
  Done
  make[2]: *** [compile-files] Error 1
  make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rlb/non-deb/emacs-21.3/lisp'
  make[1]: *** [bootstrap-lisp] Error 2
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rlb/non-deb/emacs-21.3'
  make: *** [maybe_bootstrap] Error 2

and then

  address@hidden:~/non-deb/emacs-21.3$ cd lisp
  address@hidden:~/non-deb/emacs-21.3/lisp$ \
    EMACSLOADPATH=`pwd` ../src/bootstrap-emacs --no-site-file --multibyte

and then from within the *scratch* buffer

  (setq debug-on-error t)
  t
  (setq byte-compile-debug t)
  t
  (byte-compile-file "/home/rlb/non-deb/emacs-21.3/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el")

which results in the window splitting into the *scratch* buffer and a
*Compile-Log* buffer, which looks like this:

File Edit Options Buffers Tools Help
(setq debug-on-error t)
t
(setq byte-compile-debug t)
t
(byte-compile-file "/home/rlb/non-deb/emacs-21.3/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el")
nil

----:**-F1  *scratch*         (Lisp Interaction)--L7--All-----------------------
Compiling file /home/rlb/non-deb/emacs-21.3/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el at Fri \
Oct  3 23:17:14 2003
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037600000000, -33554432, 0xfe000000"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037500000000, -50331648, 0xfd000000"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037200000000, -100663296, 0xfa000000"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037500000000, -50331648, 0xfd000000"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037100000000, -117440512, 0xf9000000"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037600000011, -33554423, 0xfe000009"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037600000000, -33554432, 0xfe000000"))

----:**-F1  *Compile-Log*      (Fundamental)--L9--Bot---------------------------
Compiling /home/rlb/non-deb/emacs-21.3/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el... (byte-com\
pile-log-lap-1)

-- 
Rob Browning
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