Re: Building a release tarball generates trampoline files in eln-cache

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 08:56:20 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: kbrown@cornell.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
> > Cc: kbrown@cornell.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 20:15:09 +0000
> > 
> > > Now the subr--trampoline*.eln files are in the right place, but this
> > > problem:
> > >
> > >>   lisp/emacs-lisp/seq.elc: Error: Symbol’s function definition is void: 
> > >> gv-setter
> > >>   lisp/term/xterm.elc: Error: Symbol’s function definition is void: t
> > >
> > > still exists.  So something else is amiss here.
> > 
> > Okay, I'll have a look into this I guess Monday.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > > Btw, why are these subr--trampoline*.eln files get generated when
> > > building the tarball, but not when building from Git "normally", where
> > > the *.eln files are produced by batch-byte+native-compile?  Because I
> > > don't see any such files that correspond to the build from Git
> > > anywhere on my system.
> > 
> > The obvious answer is that something is either redefining or advising
> > those primitives.  If it's important to know what and where we can
> > investigate it, it should not be extremely difficult.
> 
> I'm curious why 2 methods of native compilation that are supposed to
> produce identical results, in reality produce slightly different
> results: one produces these trampoline files, the other doesn't.  It
> could be that there's some hidden issue here, perhaps even related to
> those errors at startup described above.

Andrea, any progress in investigating this strange problem?  It is
currently the only hard blocking issue that prevents us from making a
pretest tarball.