Package: emacs;
Reported by: Aaron Ucko <ucko <at> ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 05:14:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 29.1
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(Thu, 05 Oct 2023 05:14:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.Aaron Ucko <ucko <at> ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>:bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org.
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From: Aaron Ucko <ucko <at> ncbi.nlm.nih.gov> To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org Subject: 29.1; malformed load-history entry when built --with-ns Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:34:34 -0400
Immediately after startup, load-history starts with the malformed entry ((require . package) (require . info)) which in turn breaks e.g. eval-after-load, which reasonably expects every entry to start with a filename. I encounter this behavior with an all-comments .emacs, but not with emacs -q; with -q, load-history instead starts with nil, which is irregular too but (mostly?) harmless. This Cocoa-enabled build exhibits the same behavior in -nw mode, but an X11 build of the same sources (unpatched 29.1) doesn't add any irregular entries in any mode. I configured it --with-ns-self-contained so that my two builds could share a .../share/emacs hierarchy, but I'd expect that to be a formality. Please let me know if you need any more information. Thanks! In GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin22.4.0, NS appkit-2299.50 Version 13.3.1 (Build 22E261)) of 2023-10-04 built on NCBIMAC1014 Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.2299 System Description: macOS 13.3.1 Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/Users/ucko/emacs-29.1 --with-ns --disable-ns-self-contained --with-modules --without-gnutls' Configured features: ACL LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY KQUEUE NS PDUMPER PNG SQLITE3 THREADS TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS ZLIB Important settings: value of $LC_COLLATE: C value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: display-time-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t indent-tabs-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t Load-path shadows: /Users/ucko/share/emacs/tex-site hides /Users/ucko/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-13.0.16/tex-site /Users/ucko/.emacs.d/elpa/transient-20230220.1425/transient hides /Users/ucko/emacs-29.1/share/emacs/29.1/lisp/transient /Users/ucko/share/emacs/w3/socks hides /Users/ucko/emacs-29.1/share/emacs/29.1/lisp/net/socks Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug cl-extra pp thingatpt help-fns radix-tree cl-print dabbrev debug backtrace help-mode find-func time jka-compr amu-functions dsvn log-edit ring pcvs-util add-log vc vc-dispatcher nnimap nnmail gnus-int mail-source gnus-range message sendmail yank-media puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec epa epg rfc6068 epg-config mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader utf7 nnoo gnus wid-edit nnheader gnus-util text-property-search time-date mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils range advice w3-auto derived cc-mode cc-fonts cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs finder-inf tex-site pcase info package browse-url url url-proxy url-privacy url-expand url-methods url-history url-cookie generate-lisp-file url-domsuf url-util mailcap url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs password-cache json subr-x map byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile url-vars cl-loaddefs cl-lib rmc iso-transl tooltip cus-start cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize mule-util term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads kqueue cocoa ns multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 452778 74812) (symbols 48 31202 3) (strings 32 94378 3768) (string-bytes 1 2764532) (vectors 16 70705) (vector-slots 8 1674909 46441) (floats 8 213 55) (intervals 56 58004 21708) (buffers 976 14)) -- Aaron Ucko <ucko at ncbi>, NCBI C++ Toolkit core development group
bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org:bug#66357; Package emacs.
(Thu, 05 Oct 2023 06:02:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.Message #8 received at 66357 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> To: Aaron Ucko <ucko <at> ncbi.nlm.nih.gov> Cc: 66357 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#66357: 29.1; malformed load-history entry when built --with-ns Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:01:27 +0300
> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:34:34 -0400
> From: Aaron Ucko via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>
>
> Immediately after startup, load-history starts with the malformed entry
>
> ((require . package) (require . info))
>
> which in turn breaks e.g. eval-after-load, which reasonably expects
> every entry to start with a filename.
>
> I encounter this behavior with an all-comments .emacs, but not with
> emacs -q; with -q, load-history instead starts with nil, which is
> irregular too but (mostly?) harmless. This Cocoa-enabled build exhibits
> the same behavior in -nw mode, but an X11 build of the same sources
> (unpatched 29.1) doesn't add any irregular entries in any mode.
I cannot reproduce this (but I'm not on macOS). My guess is that you
have packages installed via package.el, and some of your init files
are executed (and load package.el) even though the .emacs is commented
out.
I don't have any packages installed, so I don't see this problem.
In any case, the above value is non malformed, it is fully documented
in the ELisp manual:
-- Variable: load-history
The value of this variable is an alist that associates the names of
loaded library files with the names of the functions and variables
they defined, as well as the features they provided or required.
Each element in this alist describes one loaded library (including
libraries that are preloaded at startup). It is a list whose CAR
is the absolute file name of the library (a string). The rest of
the list elements have these forms:
‘VAR’
The symbol VAR was defined as a variable.
‘(defun . FUN)’
The function FUN was defined. ‘(defun . FUN)’, which
represents defining FUN as a function.
‘(defface . FACE)’
The face FACE was defined.
‘(require . FEATURE)’
The feature FEATURE was required.
bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org:bug#66357; Package emacs.
(Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:34:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.Message #11 received at 66357 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: "Aaron M. Ucko" <ucko <at> ncbi.nlm.nih.gov> To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> Cc: 66357 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#66357: 29.1; malformed load-history entry when built --with-ns Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:33:23 -0400
Thanks for the quick reply, and sorry for not following up earlier.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> I cannot reproduce this (but I'm not on macOS).
I haven't yet been able to elsewhere either, even with GNUstep libraries
installed and Emacs configured to use them.
> My guess is that you
> have packages installed via package.el, and some of your init files
> are executed (and load package.el) even though the .emacs is commented
> out.
I do indeed have some packages installed, and it looks like their
general presence affects Emacs's startup logic. I'm not sure how much
the precise set matters, but FTR, I specifically have
$ ls ~/.emacs.d/elpa/
\@-readme.txt groovy-mode-201203310931/
aggressive-indent-readme.txt jq-mode-20220610.1119/
applescript-mode-20210802.1715/ kotlin-mode-20210917.1911/
archives/ kotlin-mode-20230123.1859/
asn1-mode-20170729.226/ ldap-mode-readme.txt
auctex-13.0.16/ magit-20220131.125/
compat-29.1.3.4/ magit-20230221.648/
crontab-mode-20210715.133/ magit-section-20220130.2007/
dash-20210826.1149/ magit-section-20230213.2018/
dash-20221013.836/ protobuf-mode-20230216.1713/
git-commit-20220130.2254/ s-20220902.1511/
git-commit-20230220.1901/ transient-20220130.1941/
gnupg/ transient-20230220.1425/
gradle-mode-20150313.1905/ with-editor-20220130.1942/
graphviz-dot-mode-20230213.1945/ with-editor-20230212.2214/
> Each element in this alist describes one loaded library (including
> libraries that are preloaded at startup). It is a list whose CAR
^^^^^^^^^
> is the absolute file name of the library (a string).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The offending entry is missing a file name (or even a leading nil
placeholder), and consists *solely* of two
> ‘(require . FEATURE)’
forms, which are valid only later in the list.
--
Aaron Ucko <ucko at ncbi>, NCBI C++ Toolkit core development group
bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org:bug#66357; Package emacs.
(Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:40:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.Message #14 received at 66357 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: "Aaron M. Ucko" <ucko <at> ncbi.nlm.nih.gov> To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> Cc: 66357 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#66357: 29.1; malformed load-history entry when built --with-ns Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:39:12 -0400
Thanks for the quick reply, and sorry for not following up earlier.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> I cannot reproduce this (but I'm not on macOS).
I haven't yet been able to elsewhere either, even with GNUstep libraries
installed and Emacs configured to use them.
> My guess is that you
> have packages installed via package.el, and some of your init files
> are executed (and load package.el) even though the .emacs is commented
> out.
I do indeed have some packages installed, and it looks like their
general presence affects Emacs's startup logic. I'm not sure how much
the precise set matters, but FTR, I specifically have
$ ls ~/.emacs.d/elpa/
\@-readme.txt groovy-mode-201203310931/
aggressive-indent-readme.txt jq-mode-20220610.1119/
applescript-mode-20210802.1715/ kotlin-mode-20210917.1911/
archives/ kotlin-mode-20230123.1859/
asn1-mode-20170729.226/ ldap-mode-readme.txt
auctex-13.0.16/ magit-20220131.125/
compat-29.1.3.4/ magit-20230221.648/
crontab-mode-20210715.133/ magit-section-20220130.2007/
dash-20210826.1149/ magit-section-20230213.2018/
dash-20221013.836/ protobuf-mode-20230216.1713/
git-commit-20220130.2254/ s-20220902.1511/
git-commit-20230220.1901/ transient-20220130.1941/
gnupg/ transient-20230220.1425/
gradle-mode-20150313.1905/ with-editor-20220130.1942/
graphviz-dot-mode-20230213.1945/ with-editor-20230212.2214/
> Each element in this alist describes one loaded library (including
> libraries that are preloaded at startup). It is a list whose CAR
^^^^^^^^^
> is the absolute file name of the library (a string).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The offending entry is missing a file name (or even a leading nil
placeholder), and consists *solely* of two
> ‘(require . FEATURE)’
forms, which are valid only later in the list.
--
Aaron Ucko <ucko at ncbi>, NCBI C++ Toolkit core development group
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