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Re: End of file while generating loaddefs.el
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martin rudalics |
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Re: End of file while generating loaddefs.el |
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Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:33:38 +0100 |
> I don't know why prin1 crashed, but I do know why Emacs complains
> about end of file: there are null bytes in the middle of loaddefs.el.
> Do you have those too?
I suppose you mean this entry:
(autoload 'xref-find-backend "xref" "\
\(fn)" nil nil)
Do autoload cookies require a doc-string?
> Emacs creates loaddefs.el by visiting the previous one and scanning it
> for certain patterns. Those stray null bytes interrupt a pattern, so
> the result is that Emacs tries to parse an incomplete sexp, and barfs.
Why (apparently) on Windows only?
> if you also see these null bytes, delete them so that the expected
> format of the file is preserved, then re-run "make autoloads" -- it
> should succeed.
I now have
(autoload 'xref-find-backend "xref" "\
Run...
\(fn)" nil nil)
instead and it ran to completion.
> I don't know how these nulls ended up in loaddefs, the only hint is
> that they appear in the same place which Emacs scans when it produces
> this warning:
>
> Making generated-autoload-file local to *autoload-file* while let-bound
How did you spot that location?
martin
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