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23.1; Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not provided

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Bastien <bastienguerry <at> googlemail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1; Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not provided
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:18:24 +0100

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usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Trying to compile (make boostrap) the latest CVS version, I got this:

,----
| In toplevel form:
| net/newsticker.el:404:1:Error: Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not provided
| make[2]: *** [/home/guerry/install/cvs/emacs/lisp/net/newsticker.elc] Erreur 1
| make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /home/guerry/install/cvs/emacs/lisp »
| make[1]: *** [compile-main] Erreur 2
| make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /home/guerry/install/cvs/emacs/lisp »
| make: *** [lisp] Erreur 2
`----

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please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


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 of 2009-07-29 on bzg
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10605000
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-- 
 Bastien

Message #10 received at 5190 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Ulf Jasper <ulf.jasper <at> web.de>
To: Bastien <bastienguerry <at> googlemail.com>
Cc: 5190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5190: 23.1; Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not provided
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:38:48 +0100

Bastien <bastienguerry <at> googlemail.com> writes:
> Trying to compile (make boostrap) the latest CVS version, I got this:
>
> ,----
> | In toplevel form:
> | net/newsticker.el:404:1:Error: Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not provided
> | make[2]: *** [/home/guerry/install/cvs/emacs/lisp/net/newsticker.elc] Erreur 1
> | make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /home/guerry/install/cvs/emacs/lisp »
> | make[1]: *** [compile-main] Erreur 2
> | make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /home/guerry/install/cvs/emacs/lisp »
> | make: *** [lisp] Erreur 2
> `----

Newsticker's require/provide statements have been changed from
newsticker-* to newst-*. newsticker.el should not contain any (require
'newsticker-*) but only (require 'newst-*). See bug#5008.

Are you sure that you are using the latest newsticker files from CVS?

Message #15 received at 5190 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org>
To: Ulf Jasper <ulf.jasper <at> web.de>
Cc: 5190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5190: 23.1; Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not provided
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:54:57 +0100

Ulf Jasper <ulf.jasper <at> web.de> writes:

> Bastien <bastienguerry <at> googlemail.com> writes:
>> Trying to compile (make boostrap) the latest CVS version, I got this:
>>
>> ,----
>> | In toplevel form:
>> | net/newsticker.el:404:1:Error: Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not provided
>> | make[2]: *** [/home/guerry/install/cvs/emacs/lisp/net/newsticker.elc] Erreur 1
>> | make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /home/guerry/install/cvs/emacs/lisp »
>> | make[1]: *** [compile-main] Erreur 2
>> | make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /home/guerry/install/cvs/emacs/lisp »
>> | make: *** [lisp] Erreur 2
>> `----
>
> Newsticker's require/provide statements have been changed from
> newsticker-* to newst-*. newsticker.el should not contain any (require
> 'newsticker-*) but only (require 'newst-*). See bug#5008.
>
> Are you sure that you are using the latest newsticker files from CVS?

Quite so.  I did this:

~$ cd install/cvs/emacs/
~$ make distclean
~$ cvs update -dP
~$ ./configure
~$ make bootstrap

from the CVS repo.  

-- 
 Bastien

Message #20 received at 5190 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org>
Cc: Ulf Jasper <ulf.jasper <at> web.de>, 5190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5190: 23.1; Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not provided
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:10:33 -0500

> > Newsticker's require/provide statements have been changed from
> > newsticker-* to newst-*. newsticker.el should not contain any (require
> > 'newsticker-*) but only (require 'newst-*). See bug#5008.
> >
> > Are you sure that you are using the latest newsticker files from CVS?
>
> Quite so.  I did this:
>
> ~$ cd install/cvs/emacs/
> ~$ make distclean
> ~$ cvs update -dP
> ~$ ./configure
> ~$ make bootstrap
>
> from the CVS repo.

And what is on line 404 of lisp/net/newsticker.el?  It should be

(require 'newst-ticker)

Maybe you somehow got sticky tags on your copy; try `cvs up -A' and see
if that clears it up.

Message #23 received at 5190-quiet <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: tcaswell <tcaswell <at> gmail.com>
To: 5190-quiet <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5190: 23.1; Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not 
	provided
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:37:12 -0800 (PST)

On Dec 12 2009, 3:10 pm, Chong Yidong <c...@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> > > Newsticker's require/provide statements have been changed from
> > > newsticker-* to newst-*. newsticker.el should not contain any (require
> > > 'newsticker-*) but only (require 'newst-*). See bug#5008.
>
> > > Are you sure that you are using the latest newsticker files from CVS?
>
> > Quite so.  I did this:
>
> > ~$ cd install/cvs/emacs/
> > ~$ make distclean
> > ~$ cvs update -dP
> > ~$ ./configure
> > ~$ make bootstrap
>
> > from the CVS repo.
>
> And what is on line 404 of lisp/net/newsticker.el?  It should be
>
> (require 'newst-ticker)
>
> Maybe you somehow got sticky tags on your copy; try `cvs up -A' and see
> if that clears it up.

I had the same problem.  It seemed to be that the *.elc files were not
properly removed/rebuilt and still using the old version. deleting all
of the existing .elc files by running

~$ find ./ -iname "*.elc" -exec rm \{\} \;

fixed the problem for me.

Message #26 received at 5190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ulf Jasper <ulf.jasper <at> web.de>
To: tcaswell <tcaswell <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5190: 23.1;
	Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not  provided
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:18:34 +0100

tcaswell <tcaswell <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I had the same problem.  It seemed to be that the *.elc files were not
> properly removed/rebuilt and still using the old version. deleting all
> of the existing .elc files by running
>
> ~$ find ./ -iname "*.elc" -exec rm \{\} \;
>
> fixed the problem for me.

Making bootstrap depends on bootstrap-clean which is supposed to remove
all *.elc files from the lisp directory, its subdirectories,
subsubdirectories, and subsubsubdirectories. There should not have been
any old *.elc files.

Even if there are old *.elc files, they should be rebuilt after a
bzr/cvs/whatever-update that contained new versions of the corresponding
*.el files.

Strange.

Message #31 received at 5190-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 5190-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5190: 23.1;
	Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not provided
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 21:30:58 -0400

I guess this went away. May have been stale elc files or some other
local mishap.

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