Subject: Re: bug#36022: 26.2.50; errors byte-compiling gnus.el

From: Sven Joachim <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 13:29:46 +0200

On 2019-05-31 13:09 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> Byte-compiling lisp/gnus/gnus.el is broken on emacs-26, this is what
> happens here after removing the corresponding gnus.elc file:
>
> ,----
> | make[1]: Verzeichnis „/usr/local/src/emacs/lisp“ wird betreten
> | EMACSLOADPATH= '../src/emacs' -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp
> | --eval '(setq load-prefer-newer t)' -f batch-byte-compile
> | gnus/gnus.el
> | 
> | In gnus-interactive:
> | gnus/gnus.el:3335:15:Error: Forgot to expand macro gnus-data-header
> | in (gnus-data-header (gnus-data-find (gnus-summary-article-number)))
> | gnus/gnus.el:3337:11:Error: Forgot to expand macro gnus-data-find in (gnus-data-find (gnus-summary-article-number))
> | gnus/gnus.el:3337:29:Error: Forgot to expand macro gnus-summary-article-number in (gnus-summary-article-number)
> | make[1]: *** [Makefile:297: gnus/gnus.elc] Fehler 1
> `----
>
> The same error occurs on a fresh bootstrap, however I can successfully
> byte-compile gnus.elc with a snapshot from May 12, so something has
> broken in the meantime on emacs-26.

Bisection showed that commit 134edc10367a8434167656e631865c85b5f10c42
("Warn about wrong number of args for subrs (Bug#35767))" is the
culprit.

Cheers,
       Sven