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28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] autoload behavior different in the presence of errors

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From: Andrea Corallo <andrea.corallo <at> arm.com>
To: Mauricio Collares <mauricio <at> collares.org>
Cc: 45854 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45854: 28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] autoload behavior different in the presence of errors
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 16:29:00 +0100

Mauricio Collares <mauricio <at> collares.org> writes:

> The example is a bit convoluted, but it is a reduced example from
> another error I saw in the wild. It's not a big problem, but since this
> might be a bug I thought a report could be useful. I wish I could reduce
> it further, but hopefully this is enough.
>
> Suppose I have three files as below (I've appended an x to the original package
> names to avoid conflict):
>
> * File 1: transientx.el
>
> ;;; transientx.el --- x -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
>
> ;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "25.1"))
> ;; Package-Version: 0
>
> (require 'cl-lib)
> (require 'eieio)
>
> (defclass transient-suffix () ())
> (cl-defmethod transient--init-suffix-key ((obj transient-suffix)))
>
> ;; (provide 'transientx) commented on purpose to cause an error when requiring
> ;;; transientx.el ends here
>
> * File 2: git-commitx.el
>
> ;;; git-commitx.el --- x  -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
>
> ;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "25.1") (transientx "20200601"))
> ;; Package-Version: 20210102.1242
>
> (require 'transientx)
>
> ;;;###autoload
> (define-minor-mode global-git-commit-mode
>   "desc"
>   :global t
>   :initialize (lambda (symbol exp)
>                 (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'git-commit-setup-check-buffer)))
>
> ;;;###autoload
> (defun git-commit-setup-check-buffer ())
>
> (provide 'git-commitx)
>
> ;;; git-commitx.el ends here
>
> * File 3: elpa2nix.el
>
> (require 'package)
> (package-initialize)
>
> (defun elpa2nix-install-package ()
>   (pcase command-line-args-left
>     (`(,archive)
>      (with-temp-buffer
>        (insert-file-contents archive)
>        (package-unpack (package-buffer-info))))))
>
> Then running the following two commands in order produces the stack
> trace below on the native-comp branch:
>
> $ emacs --batch -Q -l ~/elpa2nix.el -f elpa2nix-install-package transientx.el
> $ emacs --batch -Q -l ~/elpa2nix.el -f elpa2nix-install-package git-commitx.el
>
> git-commitx.el:6:1: Error: Loading file /home/collares/.emacs.d/elpa/transientx-0/transientx.elc failed to provide feature ‘transientx’
> Done (Total of 0 files compiled, 1 failed, 2 skipped)
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "transient--init-suffix-key is already defined as s...")
>   error("%s is already defined as something else than a gen..." transient--init-suffix-key)
>   cl-generic-ensure-function(transient--init-suffix-key)
>   cl-generic-define-method(transient--init-suffix-key nil ((obj transient-suffix)) nil #f(compiled-function (obj) #<bytecode 0x1bd084804d24a6d3>))
>   require(transientx)
>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/collares/.emacs.d/elpa/git-commitx-20210102...." "/home/collares/.emacs.d/elpa/git-commitx-20210102...." nil t)
>   git-commit-setup-check-buffer()
>   run-hooks(find-file-hook)
>   after-find-file(nil t)
>   find-file-noselect-1(#<buffer git-commitx.el> "~/git-commitx.el" nil nil "~/git-commitx.el" (7340496 65025))
>   find-file-noselect("/home/collares/git-commitx.el")
>   command-line-1(("-l" "/home/collares/elpa2nix.el" "-f" "elpa2nix-install-package" "/home/collares/git-commitx.el"))
>   command-line()
>   normal-top-level()
>
> The transient--init-suffix-key error does not appear on trunk (the
> "failed to provide feature" error appears as expected). Reverting commit
> 7d7bfbf0346114b116e14a4338ea235d12674f13 makes the change of behaviour
> disappear, but I suspect it's not the true cause of the difference.

Hi Mauricio,

I failed to reproduce on latest native-comp 88100bed0a.  Either I missed
somenthing or is maybe fixed by the latest merge?

Could you check if you still see this?

Thanks

  Andrea
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