Re: Changes to autoload handling in native-comp branch?

[Alex Bennée]

Andrea Corallo <address@hidden> writes:

> Alex Bennée <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I did my weekly update of the build I noticed a bunch more errors
>> being reported when I start up:
>>
>>   Error loading autoloads: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) [98 times]
>>
>> I hesitate to call it breakage as after tweaking a few of my use-package
>> setups to explicitly load sub-files of a package I'm still able to run
>> my normal emacs activities. The change was somewhere between 4abb8c822c
>> and b7678cf10e on the native-comp branch so I was wondering if there are
>> any pointers for what might have changed so I can dig deeper.
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> yeah apparently something broke. I think bug#40620 should be about the
> same issue.  I'll have a look.

Yeah manually running that gives me the same error. It all comes down to
the line (file-name-directory #$) which I guess should have some special
handling. The weird thing is on my "normal" emacs (GNU Emacs 25.2.2
(x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) of 2017-09-22, modified by Debian) executing this
line also gives the same error although the *Messages* shows no such
problems during load up.

Does this indicate there us some sort of special context in the way the
autoload code is run? Is file-name-handler-alist modified during
autoload processing in a way that isn't picked up by native code?

>
> Thanks!
>
>   Andrea


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Alex Bennée