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Fwd: Likely bug: generating tags with Emacs Lisp sources present

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Luca Saiu <positron <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Likely bug: generating tags with Emacs Lisp sources present
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 21:32:24 +0100

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I apologize for brutally forwarding this message from a few weeks ago,
apparently with an incorrect GPG signature -- The signature issue is a
problem on my side.

I was meaning to send a gentle ping, after possibly writing to the wrong
list.

Best regards,

-- 
Luca Saiu
* My personal web site:  http://ageinghacker.net
* GNU epsilon:           http://www.gnu.org/software/epsilon
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I support everyone's freedom of mocking any opinion or belief, no
matter how deeply held, with open disrespect and the same unrelented
enthusiasm of a toddler who has just learned the word "poo".

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Message #8 received at 38139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: positron <at> gnu.org
Cc: 38139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38139: Fwd: Likely bug: generating tags with Emacs Lisp
 sources present
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 15:10:25 -0700

Hi Luca - not that I am an official automake maintainer, but thanks for
the report, and sorry for the lack of response. Your fix looks right to
me, FWIW. I hope Jim or I or someone will commit it soon. Creating the
test case will surely consume the most time. If you can easily make a
minimal Makefile.am that exhibits the problem, that would be great.
--thanks, karl.

Message #11 received at 38139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Luca Saiu <positron <at> gnu.org>
To: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Cc: 38139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38139: Fwd: Likely bug: generating tags with Emacs Lisp
 sources present
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 14:17:02 +0100

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Message #14 received at 38139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Luca Saiu <positron <at> gnu.org>
To: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>,  38139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38139: Fwd: Likely bug: generating tags with Emacs Lisp
 sources present
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 14:24:27 +0100

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My overcomplicated and probably incorrect Gnus setup keeps misbehaving,
messing up the text I add manually to a message containing attachments.
I apologize for the noise.

Let me reproduce here what was probably encoded incorrectly in the
message I have just sent.


Hello Karl, and thanks for investigating the problem.

On 2019-11-09 at 15:10 -0700, Karl Berry wrote:

> If you can easily make a minimal Makefile.am that exhibits the
> problem, that would be great.

Of course.  I put together a minimal set of files to exhibit the
problem.  Notice that some file in AC_CONFIG_HEADERS is required to
trigger it.

Here is configure.ac:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
AC_INIT([testcase], [1.0])
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
AM_PATH_LISPDIR
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
AC_OUTPUT
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

And this is Makefile.am:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
lisp_LISP = the-emacs-mode.el
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I am attaching a tarball with the two trivial scripts I used.

When preparing this test case on this I noticed a difference in behavior
between lisp_LISP and lisp_DATA , which also allows to work around the
bug: using lisp_DATA rather than lisp_LISP prevents the misbehavior.

I would say that the bug is still there: in either case the generated
definition for am__tagged_files clearly lacks a space separator.

With the provided files,
  make
,
  make install
and every other target I have tested work correctly, except
  make tags
which fails with:
make: *** No rule to make target 'the-emacs-mode.elconfig.h.in', needed by 'tags-am'.  Stop.

Best regards,

-- 
Luca Saiu
* My personal web site:  http://ageinghacker.net
* GNU epsilon:           http://www.gnu.org/software/epsilon
* Jitter:                http://ageinghacker.net/projects/jitter

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Message #17 received at 38139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Luca Saiu <positron <at> gnu.org>
To: 38139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38139: Fwd: Likely bug: generating tags with Emacs Lisp
 sources present
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 03:54:21 +0100

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On 2019-11-10 at 14:24 +0100, Luca Saiu wrote:

> using lisp_DATA rather than lisp_LISP prevents the misbehavior.

But, incidentally, using lisp_DATA also prevents tag generation from the
Emacs Lisp sources.

-- 
Luca Saiu
* My personal web site:  http://ageinghacker.net
* GNU epsilon:           http://www.gnu.org/software/epsilon
* Jitter:                http://ageinghacker.net/projects/jitter

I support everyone's freedom of mocking any opinion or belief, no
matter how deeply held, with open disrespect and the same unrelented
enthusiasm of a toddler who has just learned the word "poo".

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Message #20 received at 38139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Luca Saiu <positron <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38139: Fwd: Likely bug: generating tags with Emacs Lisp
 sources present
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:28:59 -0800

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On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 6:55 PM Luca Saiu <positron <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> On 2019-11-10 at 14:24 +0100, Luca Saiu wrote:
>
> > using lisp_DATA rather than lisp_LISP prevents the misbehavior.
>
> But, incidentally, using lisp_DATA also prevents tag generation from the
> Emacs Lisp sources.

Thanks to both of you. Karl wrote the attached fix, and I will push it soon:

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Message #23 received at 38139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Luca Saiu <positron <at> gnu.org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 38139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38139: Fwd: Likely bug: generating tags with Emacs Lisp
 sources present
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 01:54:21 +0100

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Sorry for replying late.

Thanks a lot for solving the issue!

-- 
Luca Saiu
* My personal web site:  http://ageinghacker.net
* GNU epsilon:           http://www.gnu.org/software/epsilon
* Jitter:                http://ageinghacker.net/projects/jitter

I support everyone's freedom of mocking any opinion or belief, no
matter how deeply held, with open disrespect and the same unrelented
enthusiasm of a toddler who has just learned the word "poo".

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