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bug#12548: 24.2.50; Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#12548: 24.2.50; Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:30:57 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 12548@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:13:04 -0400
>
> > Since about 2 weeks ago, I see these warning messages while
> > bootstrapping on MS-Windows, when Lisp files are being byte-compiled.
>
> Hmm.. you should have seen them since when I introduced the
> eager-macroexpansion, which is a bit more than 2 weeks.
What can I say? I don't bootstrap too often ;-)
> > Warning: Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle:
> > Γאª => (load "erc-backend.el") => (macroexpand-all (defun
> > erc-server-connect Γאª)) => (macroexpand (erc-log Γאª)) => (load "erc.el")
> > => (load "erc-backend.el")
>
> [ Not sure what this Γאª is about, but I'll assume it's some incorrect
> encoding of … ]
Most probably. The Windows console is notorious for screwing up
non-ASCII characters, since the encoding used by GUI applications and
by console programs is different.
> > AFAICS, all of these messages are related either to loading tramp.el
> > or erc-backend.el. But I may have missed others, not sure.
>
> Yes, IIRC there are two such problematic cycles, one with Tramp and
> another with ERC (there were a couple more, but I fixed them).
> I'm not completely sure how best to fix them, so I preferred to leave
> them in and wait for the ERC and Tramp maintainers to fix them later.
> They're harmless in the sense that the resulting .elc files should be
> correct (and probably even identical).
>
> I think the warning prints a clear and concise description of the cycle,
> so it should not be too hard for the maintainers of those packages to
> understand the problem and decide how best to fix it.
>
> > and its subroutines. I never saw anything similar in "regular" byte
> > compilation after updating from the master repository, FWIW.
>
> A bootstrap under GNU/Linux shows those same warnings.
Thanks for the info.
- bug#12548: 24.2.50; Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/10/01
- bug#12548: 24.2.50; Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle, Glenn Morris, 2012/10/02
- bug#12548: 24.2.50; Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/10/02
- bug#12548: 24.2.50; Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle, Glenn Morris, 2012/10/02
- bug#12548: 24.2.50; Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle, Glenn Morris, 2012/10/02
- bug#12548: 24.2.50; Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle, Stefan Monnier, 2012/10/02
- bug#12548: 24.2.50; Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle, Glenn Morris, 2012/10/03
- bug#12548: 24.2.50; Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle, Stefan Monnier, 2012/10/03