Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50; (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with describe-function (and other commands)

From: Tassilo Horn <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:38:05 +0100

Tassilo Horn <[email-masked]> writes:

> With the current master:
>
> emacs -Q
>
> M-x toggle-debug-on-error
> C-h f package-reinstall
>
> You get this backtrace:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair))

I found the problem: the new portable dumper needs emacs.pdmp in
`data-directory'.  Unfortunately, when you run without "make install",
data-directory is set to emacs/etc/ whereas the emacs.pdmp resides in
emacs/src/.

For the time being, I've created a symlink emacs/etc/emacs.pdmp ->
emacs/src/emacs.pdmp.

Bye,
Tassilo