Re: Production Version 42.0 Fails to Build

OK, I think I've found the problem. As is often the case, everyone was a little right and everyone was a little wrong.

Raman is quite correct that the type of problem Steve and I saw is usually due to stale elc files built with a different version of emacs which are incompatible with the version being used for the build. This is often a sign of something wrong in the user's environment, but not in this case.

I believe that Steve was also correct in that his environment is setup OK and that there is a problem with the tarball.

It looks like make clean is failing to clean out all the *.elc files. In particular, it is not cleaning out elc files in the lisp/g-client subdirectory. Unfortunately, the tarball includes these elc files, which I presume have been built with the version of emacs Raman is running. As a result, when you try to build emacspeak from the tarball, it is likely to fail if your using a different version of emafcs than the one Raman is using. As soon as I remove these elc files and then run make clean, make config and make emacspeak, it all works and emacspeak builds. I also found that clean is failing to remove the file sounds/default-8k/define-theme.elc

I guess the solution is to modify the clean target in the makefile so that it cleans out g-client and I guess create an updated tarball for the download site.

regards,

Tim

On 5 May 2015 at 21:14, Steve Holmes <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for confirming this, Tim. I seriously doubt my emacs environment is as broken as was claimed earlier. Besides, when someone claims something as strongly as that and offers no further details, How the hell would I be able to fix it? I have what I believe to be a fairly simple configuration of emacs for local packages but emacs itself, is strait from a production package with my distro (version 24.4).

Further more, when I have a successful build of this package, what I upload to the Arch User repository is just a package containing a build script along with some parameters that set proper paths and such. The user downloads this package, runs it and that will fetch the base tar ball and compile/build it. The AUR doesn’t distribute pre-built binaries.

Tim, I will be curious about what you find.

> On May 4, 2015, at 4:14 PM, Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Just FYI - no investigation yet, but I downloaded the tar.bz2 file from sourceforge for version 42, unpacked it in a clean directory, did a make clean, make config and make emacspeak and got the same error Steve has been seeing. This is with emacs 24.5 built from the official release source tarball.
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> I didn’t have time to dig any deeper this morning before work, but will attempt to look at it after work today.
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> regards,
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> Tim
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>> On 5 May 2015, at 12:36 am, T. V. Raman <tv.raman.tv@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Holmes <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Steve> On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 06:56:12PM -0700, T. V. Raman
>> Steve> wrote:
>>>> Suspect you need to do a make clean first followed by a
>>>> make config.
>> Steve>
>> Steve> No go. I cleared out previous source and pkg
>> "Cleared out pkg directory"
>> is not "make clean; make config"
>>
>> Steve> directories and I still get the error.
>> Steve>
>> Steve> emacspeak-eww.el:62:1:Error: Symbol's function
>> Steve> definition is void: cl-struct-define
>> Steve>
>> Steve> I also included 'make clean' before my 'make config'
>> Steve> line but still the error above. It's gotta be
>> Your emacs world is badly configured
>>
>> Decide what emacs you're going to use then specify the full path
>> during build
>> make config EMACS=<emacspath>
>> make EMACS=<emacspath>
>>
>> I would not recommend distributing a package you build in a
>> semi-broken environment.
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>> Steve> something else.
>> Steve>
>> Steve> I have a similar build procedure for the git version
>> Steve> and that one compiles fine.
>> Steve>
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