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29.0.50; Silent "Compiler-macro error for cl-member" when building from scratch

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From: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.0.50; Silent "Compiler-macro error for cl-member" when building
 from scratch
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 16:10:15 +0200

When building from scratch ("./autogen.sh && ./configure && make" from a
fresh clone), I spot the following error, which does not interrupt
compilation:

> make[2]: Entering directory '/home/peniblec/src/emacs/lisp'
>   ELC      international/titdic-cnv.elc
> make -C ../leim all EMACS="../src/bootstrap-emacs"
> make[3]: Entering directory '/home/peniblec/src/emacs/leim'
>   GEN      ../lisp/leim/quail/CCDOSPY.el
>   […]
>   GEN      ../lisp/leim/leim-list.el
> /usr/bin/mkdir -p ../lisp/leim/ja-dic
>   GEN      ../lisp/leim/ja-dic/ja-dic.el
>   INFO     Processing OKURI-ARI entries
>   INFO     Processing POSTFIX entries
>   INFO     Processing PREFIX entries
>   INFO     Collecting OKURI-NASI entries
>   INFO     Collecting OKURI-NASI entries... 
>   […]
>   INFO     Collecting OKURI-NASI entries...done
>   INFO     Processing OKURI-NASI entries
>   INFO     Processing OKURI-NASI entries... 
>   […]
>   INFO     Processing OKURI-NASI entries...done
> Compiler-macro error for cl-member: Handler: cl--compiler-macro-member
> (excessive-variable-binding)
> Eager macro-expansion failure: (excessive-variable-binding)
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/peniblec/src/emacs/leim'

(For the avoidance of doubt: this is a -j1 run; the […] lines are
regular "GEN/INFO" messages)

As far as I can tell the resulting Emacs is mostly functional; I'm using
it to write this report and have not observed any problem so far.

I have not bisected the problem yet (I noticed it yesterday); I tried to
find a faster recipe than "git clean -fdx && ./autogen.sh && ./configure
&& make", e.g. variations of "touch foo && make bar" from leim/Makefile
and lisp/Makefile, but the error does not show up unless I rebuild
everything from scratch.

"make V=1" says that this is the command that runs when the error comes
(run from the leim subdirectory):

'../src/bootstrap-emacs' -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp -batch -l ja-dic-cnv \
  -f batch-skkdic-convert -dir "./../lisp/leim/ja-dic" "SKK-DIC/SKK-JISYO.L"

Unfortunately running this after Emacs is built does not trigger the
error for me.  The "simplest" recipe I have is:

git clean -dfx
./autogen.sh
./configure
make -j16 -C src bootstrap-emacs
cd leim
mkdir ../lisp/leim/ja-dic
'../src/bootstrap-emacs' -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp -batch -l ja-dic-cnv -f batch-skkdic-convert -dir "./../lisp/leim/ja-dic" "SKK-DIC/SKK-JISYO.L"

Hope someone can make sense of that, and this is not some setup-specific
thing; FWIW I'm seeing this on openSUSE Tumbleweed and Debian bullseye.


In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.33, cairo version 1.16.0)
 of 2022-04-08 built on amdahl30
Repository revision: e9849939549010529e180ffb2509922f1bcc4843
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101003
System Description: openSUSE Tumbleweed

Message #8 received at 54816 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
To: 54816 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Subject: Re: bug#54816: 29.0.50; Silent "Compiler-macro error for cl-member"
 when building from scratch
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2022 11:20:26 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

tags 54816 patch
thanks

Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> Compiler-macro error for cl-member: Handler: cl--compiler-macro-member
>> (excessive-variable-binding)
>> Eager macro-expansion failure: (excessive-variable-binding)

That bit about excessive-variable-binding rang a bell; I dimly
remembered seeing a couple of commits increasing max-specpdl-size "not
too long ago".  git-log turned these up:

* 2022-01-31 "Enlarge max-specpdl-size for generation of files in
  .../admin/grammars" (be2566eeab)
* 2022-01-30 "Enlarge max-specpdl-size for generation of leim-list.el in
  bootstrap" (46611aa468)

So here's a "monkey see; monkey do" patch that causes this error to go
away; no idea if it's The Right Thing™ though?

[max-specpdl-size.patch (text/x-patch, inline)]

diff --git a/leim/Makefile.in b/leim/Makefile.in
index 6cf0abb40c..4e70e8b7e9 100644
--- a/leim/Makefile.in
+++ b/leim/Makefile.in
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ ${leimdir}/ja-dic/ja-dic.el:
 
 ${leimdir}/ja-dic/ja-dic.el: $(srcdir)/SKK-DIC/SKK-JISYO.L
 	$(AM_V_GEN)$(RUN_EMACS) -batch -l ja-dic-cnv \
+	  --eval "(setq max-specpdl-size 5000)" \
 	  -f batch-skkdic-convert -dir "$(leimdir)/ja-dic" "$<"
 
 ${srcdir}/../lisp/language/pinyin.el: ${srcdir}/MISC-DIC/pinyin.map

Message #13 received at 54816 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, 54816 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54816: 29.0.50; Silent "Compiler-macro error for cl-member"
 when building from scratch
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2022 14:43:22 +0200

Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com> writes:

> So here's a "monkey see; monkey do" patch that causes this error to go
> away; no idea if it's The Right Thing™ though?

Looks like the right thing to me; pushed to Emacs 29 now.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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