Re: Debian emacs-snapshot VM warning

[Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "T. V. Raman" <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Debian emacs-snapshot VM warning
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:30:15 -0800

If your emacs 22 CVS snapshot is later than Feb 28th, I would expect you would
see the problem, unless you have not tried rebuilding VM since that date. Maybe
its something odd with the Debian specific mods or the Debian version of VM, I
don't know. However, the issue has been confirmed by multiple people, including
Romain Francois, the emacs-snapshot maintainer. The patch he provides fixes the
issue by disabling printing of circular data structures. The variable to do
this was added to the emacs sources in CVS around the 28th (from my
recollection of checking the lisp changelog). 

If you don't see the issue, I guess we put it down to good luck or a sign of
approval from the elisp gods!

Tim


> 
> I'm running emacs 22 from the cvs repository and have had no
> issues with vm.
> 
> >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>     Tim> Just a quick heads up for anyone running Debian and
>     Tim> using the emacs 22 snapshot from Debian "unstable". A
>     Tim> new version was uploaded on the 8th Feb. However, i've
>     Tim> found it won't complete the install due to problems with
>     Tim> byte compiling VM. I'm not sure what the issue is yet,
>     Tim> but I found when I tried to install the updated
>     Tim> snapshot, it gives a message about compiling add-on
>     Tim> packages, system load goes up significantly and it just
>     Tim> never exits. To install the snapshot, I had to remove
>     Tim> VM. After it is installed, attempts to install VM have
>     Tim> the same symptoms.
>     Tim> 
>     Tim> So, if your running emacs-snapshot and VM, avoid
>     Tim> upgrading for the time being if you don't want to lose
>     Tim> VM support. I will let the list know when the situation
>     Tim> changes.
>     Tim> 
>     Tim> regards,
>     Tim> 
>     Tim> Tim
>     Tim> 
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