bootstrap oddities: cvs vs. arch? Long pathnames? (was: Gnus 5.11 in Emacs CVS)

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Apr 21 2004, Miles Bader wrote:

> I tried building from a fresh arch checkout, in the source-dir,
> with a non-standard (and non-existant) --prefix:
>
>    $ cd /usr/local/emacs

I used /var/tmp/ste here.

>    $ tla get emacs--cvs-trunk--0 test
>         ...
>    $ cd test
>    $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/emacs-test
>         ...
>
>    $ make bootstrap
>         ...
>         ...  (fails as before, trying to compile eshell/esh-module.el)

Bootstrap succeeds here.

Now a checked out a second fresh arch tree using a long pathname
(/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test).

Bootstrap fails at the same spot as previously:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(cd lisp; make  bootstrap EMACS=../src/bootstrap-emacs)
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp'
wd=/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp;
 subdirs=`(cd $wd; find . -type d -print)`; for file in $subdirs; do case $file 
in */Old | */RCS | */CVS | */CVS/* | */.* | */.*/* | */=* ) ;; *) wins="$wins 
$wd/$file" ;; esac; done; \
for file in $wins; do \
   
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/../update-subdirs
 $file; \
done;
wd=/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp;
 subdirs=`(cd $wd; find . -type d -print)`; for file in $subdirs; do case $file 
in */Old | */RCS | */CVS | */CVS/* | */.* | */.*/* | */=* ) ;; *) wins="$wins 
$wd/$file" ;; esac; done; \
echo Directories: $wins; \
../src/bootstrap-emacs -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l autoload --eval 
'(setq generated-autoload-file 
"/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/loaddefs.el")'
 -f batch-update-autoloads $wins
Directories: 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/.
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./calc
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./calendar
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./emacs-lisp
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./emulation
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./eshell
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./gnus
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./international
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./language
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./mail
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./mh-e
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./net
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./obsolete
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./play
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./progmodes
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./term
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./textmodes
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./toolbar
 
/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp/./url
Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth
make[1]: *** [autoloads] Error 255
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test/lisp'
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
address@hidden:/var/tmp/ste/import/Archive/8.2-RPM-Groups/Productivity/Editors/Emacs/emacs/arch/HEAD/test$
 
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

>    $ src/bootstrap-emacs -batch -f batch-byte-compile
>    lisp/vc-arch.el
>
>    In end of data:
>    vc-arch.el:421:1:Warning: the function `vc-switches' might not be defined 
> at
>        runtime.
>    Wrote /usr/local/src/emacs/test/lisp/vc-arch.elc

Works.

>    $ make -C lisp bootstrap EMACS=../src/bootstrap-emacs
>        ...   (all lisp files now successfully compile)

Fails with same "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth" as above.

As mentioned in previous mails, the same error can be triggered by
with the following command:

,----
| $ (cd lisp; ../src/bootstrap-emacs -batch --no-site-file \
|    --multibyte -l lisp-mode NON-EXISTENT-FILE)
| Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth
`----

I.e. there might be some bug in lisp-mode.

>    $ make
>        ...   (emacs finishes compiling correctly)
>
> I'm not sure what's going on with your builds; maybe it's the long
> pathnames,

It is most probably triggered by the long pathnames, I think.

> or your OS?  I'm using debian unstable on a 386 machine.

I'm using SuSE 8.2 (incl. all recommended security updates) on an AMD
Athlon.

,----
| $ cat /etc/SuSE-release 
| SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586)
| VERSION = 8.2
| $ uname -a
| Linux lumberjack 2.4.20-4GB #1 Fri Apr 2 19:11:10 UTC 2004 i686 unknown 
unknown GNU/Linux
| $ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
| processor       : 0
| vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
| cpu family      : 6
| model           : 8
| model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+
| stepping        : 1
| cpu MHz         : 2079.574
| cache size      : 256 KB
| fdiv_bug        : no
| hlt_bug         : no
| f00f_bug        : no
| coma_bug        : no
| fpu             : yes
| fpu_exception   : yes
| cpuid level     : 1
| wp              : yes
| flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca 
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
| bogomips        : 4141.87
`----

> When you said that the line compiling vc-arch.el failed, what was the
> error message?

Sorry, I don't have this message around anymore (and cannot reproduce
it anymore).  It was something related to failed loading of some lisp
files from "/import/xtra/emacs/Gnus_5_11_arch/share/emacs/..." (where
"/import/xtra/emacs/Gnus_5_11_arch" was my --prefix argument for
configure).

Bye, Reiner.
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