bug#47169: closed (28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] native-compiler-error-empty-byte when batch-native-compiling is confusing to users)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #47169,
regarding 28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] native-compiler-error-empty-byte when 
batch-native-compiling is confusing to users
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> 28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] native-compiler-error-empty-byte when batch-native-compiling is confusing to users
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> Mon, 15 Mar 2021 14:34:51 -0300
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> Some packages contain valid .el files such that batch-byte-compiling
> them does not produce an .elc file, for example because they set
> "no-byte-compile" to t. Running batch-byte-compile on such a file exits
> successfully (without outputting any .elc file, of course) but running
> batch-native-compile exits with native-compiler-error-empty-byte.
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> In the Nix package manager, we native-compile packages at installation
> time, and we do so by calling batch-native-compile for each .el file in
> the package separately. So in our use case .el files as described above
> shouldn't trigger error messages. We can work around this on the Nix
> side, but I was wondering if it would be better to turn the error into a
> warning (or even not emit a warning at all, since technically everything
> went well).
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> Step to reproduce: batch-native-compile a file that sets no-byte-compile
> to t.
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> (Reporting this on behalf of a user, see
> https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay/issues/120)
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> Best,
> Mauricio
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> Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:46:38 +0000
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)
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> Mauricio Collares <mauricio@collares.org> writes:
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> > Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:
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> >> Hi Mauricio,
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> >> sorry for the sloppy/untested patch, 3e133cc050 works for me please have
> >> a try.
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> > Hi Andrea,
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> > I can confirm that I no longer see native-compiler-error-empty-byte
> > being signaled in such cases. Many thanks for the fix!
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> Super, thanks for reporting.
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> Closing, thanks!
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>   Andrea
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