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29.4; compat 30.0.2.0 build failure on Emacs 28.2

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From: Xiyue Deng <manphiz <at> gmail.com>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 75903 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75903: 29.4; compat 30.0.2.0 build failure on Emacs 28.2
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 09:01:02 -0800

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Hi Daniel,

Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de> writes:

> Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>>> From: Xiyue Deng <manphiz <at> gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:22:47 -0800
>>>> 
>>>> When trying to build compat 30.0.2.0 using Emacs 28.2 from Debian
>>>> Bookworm (the current stable release), the build process throws the
>>>> following error:
>>>> 
>>>> ,----
>>>> | ...
>>>> | dh binary --with elpa
>>>> |    dh_update_autotools_config
>>>> |    dh_autoreconf
>>>> |    dh_auto_configure
>>>> |    dh_auto_build
>>>> |         make -j2 "INSTALL=install --strip-program=true"
>>>> | make[1]: Entering directory '/build/reproducible-path/compat-el-30.0.2.0+dfsg'
>>>> | Compiling compat-25.el
>>>> | Compiling compat-26.el
>>>> | Compiling compat-27.el
>>>> | Compiling compat-28.el
>>>> | Compiling compat-29.el
>>>> | Compiling compat-30.el
>>>> | 
>>>> | In toplevel form:
>>>> | compat-30.el:28:1: Error: untrusted-content already defined
>>>> | make[1]: *** [Makefile:81: compat-30.elc] Error 1
>>>> | make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>>>> | make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/compat-el-30.0.2.0+dfsg'
>>>> | dh_auto_build: error: make -j2 "INSTALL=install --strip-program=true" returned exit code 2
>>>> | make: *** [debian/rules:4: binary] Error 25
>>>> | dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
>>>> | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> | Build finished at 2025-01-27T23:09:47Z
>>>> `----
>>>> 
>>>> This doesn't happen when building using Emacs 29.4 from Debian Trixie
>>>> (current testing).
>>>
>>> Daniel, could you please look into this?
>>
>> You can build Compat with (setq compat-strict nil). Compat has strict
>> checks in place which check that the defined symbols match the reported
>> Emacs version. These checks are for the purpose of Compat development. I
>> suspect that Debian has security patches applied which turn Emacs 28.2
>> into an Emacs 28/29 mix. See also the report at
>> https://github.com/emacs-compat/compat/issues/60.
>
> I have pushed a fix. See Compat commit
> bfc0a46098be2dcaad0518ec200ff5a2be5cc9bb.
>

This worked.  Thanks for the quick fix!

> Daniel

-- 
Regards,
Xiyue Deng

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