Subject: bug#15432: 24.3.50; Bootstrap fails

From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:55:54 +0000 (UTC)

Hi, Jan.

Jan Dj?rv <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Hi.

> Bisect suggests this version introduced the error, but is does not seem obvious what the fault is:

> revno: 114410
> committer: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
> branch nick: trunk
> timestamp: Fri 2013-09-20 08:34:36 -0700
> message:
>  A simpler, centralized INLINE.
>  
>  * lib-src/profile.c (INLINE): New macro.
>  (SYSTIME_INLINE): Remove.
>  * src/conf_post.h (INLINE): Define only if not already defined.
>  This allows us to use a single INLINE, defined by one file
>  per executable.
>  * src/emacs.c (INLINE): Define it.
>  Also, include category.h, charset.h, composite.h, dispextern.h,
>  syntax.h, systime.h, so that their INLINE definitions are expanded
>  properly for Emacs.
>  * src/blockinput.h, src/keyboard.c (BLOCKINPUT_INLINE):
>  * src/buffer.h, src/buffer.c (BUFFER_INLINE):
>  * src/category.h, src/category.c (CATEGORY_INLINE):
>  * src/character.h, src/character.c (CHARACTER_INLINE):
>  * src/charset.h, src/charset.c (CHARSET_INLINE):
>  * src/composite.h, src/composite.c (COMPOSITE_INLINE):
>  * src/dispextern.h, src/dispnew.c (DISPEXTERN_INLINE):
>  * src/frame.h, src/frame.c (FRAME_INLINE):
>  * src/intervals.h, src/intervals.c (INTERVALS_INLINE):
>  * src/keyboard.h, src/keyboard.c (KEYBOARD_INLINE):
>  * src/lisp.h, src/alloc.c (LISP_INLINE):
>  * src/process.h, src/process.c (PROCESS_INLINE):
>  * src/syntax.h, src/syntax.c (SYNTAX_INLINE):
>  * src/systime.h, src/sysdep.c (SYSTIME_INLINE):
>  * src/termhooks.h, src/terminal.h (TERMHOOKS_INLINE):
>  * src/window.h, src/window.c (WINDOW_INLINE):
>  Remove.  All uses replaced with INLINE.

>        Jan D.

CC Mode uses category properties at the place where syntax-table text
properties are tested.  Maybe something has gone awry in src/category.c.

I don't get the problem on a GNU system.

> 21 sep 2013 kl. 11:07 skrev Jan Dj?rv <[email-masked]>:

>> Hello.
>> 
>> Happens on Fedora 19 as well, so it is probably a general error, not platform specific.
>> 
>>       Jan D.
>> 
>> 21 sep 2013 kl. 11:01 skrev Jan Dj?rv <[email-masked]>:
>> 
>>> Hello.
>>> 
>>> On OSX, current trunk:
>>> 
>>> Compiling /Users/jhd/src/emacs/current/lisp/cedet/semantic/bovine/gcc.el
>>> Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "CC Mode is incompatible with this version of Emacs - support for the `syntax-table' text property is required.")
>>> 
>>> In toplevel form:
>>> ../../current/lisp/cedet/semantic/bovine/c.el:36:1:Error: CC Mode is incompatible with this version of Emacs - support for the `syntax-table' text property is required.
>>> make[3]: *** [cedet/semantic/bovine/c.elc] Error 1
>>> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>>> Wrote /Users/jhd/src/emacs/current/lisp/cedet/semantic/bovine/el.elc
>>> Wrote /Users/jhd/src/emacs/current/lisp/cedet/semantic/bovine/gcc.elc
>>> make[2]: *** [compile-main] Error 2
>>> make[1]: *** [lisp] Error 2
>>> make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
>>> 
>>>      Jan D.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).