Re: Weird build problem

[Paul Pogonyshev]

I wrote:

> I stumble into this problem when building Emacs (when
> `bootstrap-emacs' is run for the first time from `lisp/'):
>
>       Cannot open load file: cl-macs

So, here is `make' and `gdb' output that shows the problem.



[paul 14:51:47 emacs]$ ./configure --with-x

--- Emacs configures just fine ---



[paul 14:52:13 emacs]$ make CFLAGS='-g' -s bootstrap
Loading loadup.el (source)...
Using load-path (/home/paul/emacs/lisp /home/paul/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp 
/home/paul/emacs/lisp/language /home/paul/emacs/lisp/international 
/home/paul/emacs/lisp/textmodes)
Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run...
Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...
Loading subr...
Loading version.el (source)...
Loading widget (source)...
Loading custom...
Loading emacs-lisp/map-ynp...
Loading env...
Loading cus-start...
Loading international/mule (source)...
Loading international/mule-conf.el (source)...
Loading format...
Loading bindings...
Loading files...
Loading cus-face...
Loading faces...
Lists of integers (garbage collection statistics) are normal output
while building Emacs; they do not indicate a problem.
((20198 . 3819) (4241 . 4) (539 . 0) 121236 27516 (10 . 1) (17 . 0) (4730 . 
499))
Loading loaddefs.el (source)...
((40999 . 3612) (6806 . 0) (548 . 5) 948670 27550 (36 . 33) (17 . 0) (12428 . 
46))
Loading simple (source)...
Loading help (source)...
Loading international/mule-cmds (source)...
Loading case-table...
Loading international/utf-8 (source)...
Loading international/utf-16 (source)...
Loading international/characters (source)...
Loading international/latin-1 (source)...
Loading international/latin-2 (source)...
Loading international/latin-3 (source)...
Loading international/latin-4 (source)...
Loading international/latin-5 (source)...
Loading international/latin-8 (source)...
Loading international/latin-9 (source)...
Loading language/chinese (source)...
Loading language/cyrillic (source)...
Loading language/indian (source)...
Loading language/devanagari (source)...
Loading language/malayalam (source)...
Loading language/tamil (source)...
Loading language/kannada (source)...
Loading language/english (source)...
Loading language/ethiopic (source)...
Loading language/european (source)...
Loading language/czech (source)...
Loading language/slovak (source)...
Loading language/romanian (source)...
Loading language/greek (source)...
Loading language/hebrew (source)...
Loading language/japanese (source)...
Loading language/korean (source)...
Loading language/lao (source)...
Loading language/thai (source)...
Loading language/tibetan (source)...
Loading language/vietnamese (source)...
Loading language/misc-lang (source)...
Loading language/utf-8-lang (source)...
Loading language/georgian (source)...
Loading international/ucs-tables (source)...
Loading indent (source)...
Loading window (source)...
Loading frame...
Loading term/tty-colors (source)...
Loading font-core...
Loading facemenu...
Loading mouse (source)...
Loading scroll-bar (source)...
Loading select (source)...
Loading emacs-lisp/timer...
Loading isearch (source)...
((112521 . 10215) (9763 . 0) (566 . 151) 1220883 232105 (56 . 13) (17 . 43) 
(19594 . 377))
Loading menu-bar (source)...
Loading paths.el (source)...
Loading startup (source)...
Loading emacs-lisp/lisp...
Loading textmodes/page (source)...
Loading register (source)...
Loading textmodes/paragraphs (source)...
Loading emacs-lisp/lisp-mode...
Loading textmodes/text-mode (source)...
Loading textmodes/fill (source)...
((132897 . 5185) (10407 . 1) (571 . 146) 1298249 235244 (58 . 11) (17 . 43) 
(21775 . 653))
Loading replace (source)...
Loading abbrev...
Loading buff-menu...
Loading emacs-lisp/float-sup...
((137675 . 1710) (10616 . 1) (572 . 145) 1323037 236596 (64 . 5) (17 . 43) 
(22287 . 204))
Loading vc-hooks (source)...
Loading ediff-hook...
((142552 . 2320) (10990 . 8) (573 . 144) 1333593 236915 (64 . 5) (17 . 43) 
(22817 . 304))
Finding pointers to doc strings...
Finding pointers to doc strings...done
Dumping under names emacs and emacs-21.3.50
73324 pure bytes used
Directories: /home/paul/emacs/lisp/. /home/paul/emacs/lisp/./calc 
/home/paul/emacs/lisp/./gnus /home/paul/emacs/lisp/./textmodes 
/home/paul/emacs/lisp/./progmodes /home/paul/emacs/lisp/./calendar 
/home/paul/emacs/lisp/./emacs-lisp /home/paul/emacs/lisp/./emulation 
/home/paul/emacs/lisp/./eshell /home/paul/emacs/lisp/./international 
/home/paul/emacs/lisp/./language /home/paul/emacs/lisp/./mail 
/home/paul/emacs/lisp/./mh-e /home/paul/emacs/lisp/./net 
/home/paul/emacs/lisp/./obsolete /home/paul/emacs/lisp/./play 
/home/paul/emacs/lisp/./term /home/paul/emacs/lisp/./toolbar 
/home/paul/emacs/lisp/./url
Cannot open load file: cl-macs
make[1]: *** [autoloads] Error 255
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2



[paul 14:53:16 emacs]$ cd src
[paul 14:53:32 src]$ EMACSLOADPATH=/home/paul/emacs/lisp ./bootstrap-emacs 
--batch
Cannot open load file: cl-macs
[paul 14:54:30 src]$ 
EMACSLOADPATH=/home/paul/emacs/lisp:/home/paul/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp 
./bootstrap-emacs --batch

--- Note that when `emacs-lisp' is added to load path, everything works ---



[paul 14:55:22 src]$ EMACSLOADPATH=/home/paul/emacs/lisp gdb --args 
./bootstrap-emacs --batch
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (5.2.1-4)
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
DISPLAY = :0
TERM = xterm
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8108c4c: file emacs.c, line 428.
Breakpoint 2 at 0x80e4895: file xterm.c, line 7839.
(gdb) b Fload
Breakpoint 3 at 0x819f0ad: file lread.c, line 673.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/paul/emacs/src/bootstrap-emacs -geometry 80x40+0+0

Breakpoint 3, Fload (file=143542739, noerror=138610609, nomessage=138610609, 
nosuffix=138610609, must_suffix=138610657)
    at lread.c:673
673       register int fd = -1;
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Cannot open load file: cl-macs

--- Note that Emacs fails on the first invocation of Fload() ---

Program exited with code 0377.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/paul/emacs/src/bootstrap-emacs -geometry 80x40+0+0

Breakpoint 3, Fload (file=143542739, noerror=138610609, nomessage=138610609, 
nosuffix=138610609, must_suffix=138610657)
    at lread.c:673
673       register int fd = -1;
(gdb) call debug_print (file)
"cl-macs"
(gdb) ret
Make Fload return now? (y or n) y
#0  0x08186973 in do_autoload (fundef=143600445, funname=138863417) at 
eval.c:1936
1936      Fload (Fcar (Fcdr (fundef)), Qnil, noninteractive ? Qt : Qnil, Qnil, 
Qt);
(gdb) call debug_print (fundef)
(autoload "cl-macs" nil nil t)
(gdb) ret
Make do_autoload return now? (y or n) y
#0  0x081870e1 in Feval (form=143243477) at eval.c:2143
2143              do_autoload (fun, original_fun);
(gdb) call debug_print (form)
(dolist (dir load-path) (let ((default-directory dir)) (load (expand-file-name 
"subdirs.el") t t t)) (let ((default-directory dir)) (load (expand-file-name 
"leim-list.el") t t t)))

--- This is the form in `startup.el' I mentioned in the previous message ---

(gdb) The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y