bug#29220: 26.0.90; eieio-persistent-read fail to restore saved object.

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On 02/25/18 00:21 AM, Pierre Téchoueyres wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> pierre.techoueyres@free.fr (Pierre Téchoueyres) writes:
>>
>>> Hello Eric,
>>> Any news on this fix ?
>>
>> Hey, sorry again this is taking so long. I wanted to run CEDET's test
>> suite, as that seems to be the main library that relies on
>> eieio-persistent, and I wanted to make sure it passed with these
>> changes. I can't get CEDET to build on my machine, however (apparently
>> Arch has a too-new version of ImageMagick, and CEDET won't build against
>> it), and I haven't had any luck just faking it and running the tests
>> themselves -- everything's too dependent on a successful build.
>>
>> I've only got two Arch machines to play with -- if anyone could
>> successfully build and test CEDET using the fix/eieio-persistent branch,
>> that would be very helpful...
>>
>
> I've been able to run the "itest-batch" and "utest-batch" from the CEDET
> git repository (http://git.code.sf.net/p/cedet/git), but I don't know
> how to interpret the results. Whatever the emacs version I use (25.3 or
> 26.0.91 + fix), I get errors. So I don't know what to check for the
> fix/eieio-persistent branch.

Bah, this is annoyingly difficult -- thank you for trying it out. I
suppose one terrible heuristic would be if the errors were different
between emacs-25, emacs-26, and fix/eieio-persistent. Would you mind
sending me the error output, in case anything jumps out at me?

Thanks again,
Eric