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31.0.50; Warnings about missing 'lexical-binding' cookie in *Async-native-compile-log*

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From: Roi Martin <jroi.martin <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 31.0.50; Warnings about missing 'lexical-binding' cookie in
 *Async-native-compile-log*
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 10:41:35 +0200

Several warnings about missing 'lexical-binding' cookie show up in
*Async-native-compile-log*.  They seem to show up when a feature that
has not been compiled yet is used and needs to be compiled.  The issue
is reproducible by just running 'emacs -Q'.  You can find some of the
warnings below.

  Warning (files): Missing ‘lexical-binding’ cookie in "/tmp/emacs-async-comp-dired-aux-xXuqdt.el".
  You can add one with ‘M-x elisp-enable-lexical-binding RET’.
  See ‘(elisp)Selecting Lisp Dialect’ and ‘(elisp)Converting to Lexical Binding’
  for more information.
  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/dired-aux.el...
  Compilation finished.
  Warning (files): Missing ‘lexical-binding’ cookie in "/tmp/emacs-async-comp-shell-rZsYYK.el".
  You can add one with ‘M-x elisp-enable-lexical-binding RET’.
  See ‘(elisp)Selecting Lisp Dialect’ and ‘(elisp)Converting to Lexical Binding’
  for more information.
  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/shell.el...
  Warning (files): Missing ‘lexical-binding’ cookie in "/tmp/emacs-async-comp-pcomplete-lO4nJm.el".
  You can add one with ‘M-x elisp-enable-lexical-binding RET’.
  See ‘(elisp)Selecting Lisp Dialect’ and ‘(elisp)Converting to Lexical Binding’
  for more information.
  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/pcomplete.el...
  Warning (files): Missing ‘lexical-binding’ cookie in "/tmp/emacs-async-comp-files-x-oLXnPa.el".
  You can add one with ‘M-x elisp-enable-lexical-binding RET’.
  See ‘(elisp)Selecting Lisp Dialect’ and ‘(elisp)Converting to Lexical Binding’
  for more information.
  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/files-x.el...
  Compilation finished.
  Warning (files): Missing ‘lexical-binding’ cookie in "/tmp/emacs-async-comp-rfc2047-XugClb.el".
  You can add one with ‘M-x elisp-enable-lexical-binding RET’.
  See ‘(elisp)Selecting Lisp Dialect’ and ‘(elisp)Converting to Lexical Binding’
  for more information.
  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/mail/rfc2047.el...
  Compilation finished.

What follows is one of the .el files that produced the warning
(emacs-async-comp-icomplete-tWY9i1.el).  Note that I elided the
native-comp-eln-load-path and load-path values to shorten the report.

  (require 'comp)(setq comp-async-compilation t warning-fill-column most-positive-fixnum)(setq comp-file-preloaded-p 'nil native-comp-verbose '0 native-comp-eln-load-path '(...) load-path '(...) byte-compile-warnings 't)nil(message "Compiling %s..." "/home/n/src/emacs/lisp/icomplete.el")(comp--native-compile "/home/n/src/emacs/lisp/icomplete.el" t)


In GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 4, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
 3.24.43, cairo version 1.18.2) of 2025-04-19 built on wopr
Repository revision: 9ea9c5a73e004903ca1c6e15cf5797458315ad9a
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12401006
System Description: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)

Configured features:
ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
LIBSELINUX LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER
PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINERAMA XINPUT2 XPM XRANDR GTK3 ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_IE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_IE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_TIME: en_IE.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: elisp-compile

Minor modes in effect:
  icomplete-mode: t
  fido-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  minibuffer-regexp-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: 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:
None found.

Features:
(help-mode pp shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug lisp-mnt message mailcap
yank-media puny rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg
rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode
mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047
rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils display-line-numbers
files-x shell pcomplete compile text-property-search comint subr-x
ansi-osc ansi-color ring dired-aux dired dired-loaddefs comp-run
bytecomp byte-compile comp-common rx icomplete cl-loaddefs cl-lib rmc
iso-transl tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook
vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/x-win x-win
term/common-win x-dnd touch-screen 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 dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting
font-render-setting cairo gtk x-toolkit xinput2 x multi-tty move-toolbar
make-network-process tty-child-frames native-compile emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 171289 28956) (symbols 48 7497 4) (strings 32 26333 2931)
 (string-bytes 1 757901) (vectors 16 14367)
 (vector-slots 8 182883 43794) (floats 8 35 1262)
 (intervals 56 5930 1736) (buffers 992 16))

Message #8 received at 77918 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Roi Martin <jroi.martin <at> gmail.com>,
 Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 77918 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77918: 31.0.50;
 Warnings about missing 'lexical-binding' cookie in
 *Async-native-compile-log*
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 14:45:56 +0300

> From: Roi Martin <jroi.martin <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 10:41:35 +0200
> 
> 
> Several warnings about missing 'lexical-binding' cookie show up in
> *Async-native-compile-log*.  They seem to show up when a feature that
> has not been compiled yet is used and needs to be compiled.  The issue
> is reproducible by just running 'emacs -Q'.  You can find some of the
> warnings below.
> 
>   Warning (files): Missing ‘lexical-binding’ cookie in "/tmp/emacs-async-comp-dired-aux-xXuqdt.el".
>   You can add one with ‘M-x elisp-enable-lexical-binding RET’.
>   See ‘(elisp)Selecting Lisp Dialect’ and ‘(elisp)Converting to Lexical Binding’
>   for more information.
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/dired-aux.el...
>   Compilation finished.
>   Warning (files): Missing ‘lexical-binding’ cookie in "/tmp/emacs-async-comp-shell-rZsYYK.el".
>   You can add one with ‘M-x elisp-enable-lexical-binding RET’.
>   See ‘(elisp)Selecting Lisp Dialect’ and ‘(elisp)Converting to Lexical Binding’
>   for more information.
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/shell.el...
>   Warning (files): Missing ‘lexical-binding’ cookie in "/tmp/emacs-async-comp-pcomplete-lO4nJm.el".
>   You can add one with ‘M-x elisp-enable-lexical-binding RET’.
>   See ‘(elisp)Selecting Lisp Dialect’ and ‘(elisp)Converting to Lexical Binding’
>   for more information.
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/pcomplete.el...
>   Warning (files): Missing ‘lexical-binding’ cookie in "/tmp/emacs-async-comp-files-x-oLXnPa.el".
>   You can add one with ‘M-x elisp-enable-lexical-binding RET’.
>   See ‘(elisp)Selecting Lisp Dialect’ and ‘(elisp)Converting to Lexical Binding’
>   for more information.
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/files-x.el...
>   Compilation finished.
>   Warning (files): Missing ‘lexical-binding’ cookie in "/tmp/emacs-async-comp-rfc2047-XugClb.el".
>   You can add one with ‘M-x elisp-enable-lexical-binding RET’.
>   See ‘(elisp)Selecting Lisp Dialect’ and ‘(elisp)Converting to Lexical Binding’
>   for more information.
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/mail/rfc2047.el...
>   Compilation finished.
> 
> What follows is one of the .el files that produced the warning
> (emacs-async-comp-icomplete-tWY9i1.el).  Note that I elided the
> native-comp-eln-load-path and load-path values to shorten the report.
> 
>   (require 'comp)(setq comp-async-compilation t warning-fill-column most-positive-fixnum)(setq comp-file-preloaded-p 'nil native-comp-verbose '0 native-comp-eln-load-path '(...) load-path '(...) byte-compile-warnings 't)nil(message "Compiling %s..." "/home/n/src/emacs/lisp/icomplete.el")(comp--native-compile "/home/n/src/emacs/lisp/icomplete.el" t)

Andrea, what would you suggest as the solution for these warnings?

(This was already reported as part of the discussion on emacs-devel,
but we never finalized the solution for this aspect.)

Message #11 received at 77918 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Roi Martin <jroi.martin <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 77918 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77918: 31.0.50; Warnings about missing 'lexical-binding'
 cookie in *Async-native-compile-log*
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 13:54:47 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Andrea, what would you suggest as the solution for these warnings?
>
> (This was already reported as part of the discussion on emacs-devel,
> but we never finalized the solution for this aspect.)

I attached a possible fix.  Does it make sense?

[0001-Fix-missing-lexical-binding-cookie-warning-on-async-.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

Message #14 received at 77918 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Roi Martin <jroi.martin <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 77918 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, acorallo <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77918: 31.0.50; Warnings about missing 'lexical-binding'
 cookie in *Async-native-compile-log*
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:21:22 +0300

> From: Roi Martin <jroi.martin <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 77918 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 13:54:47 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Andrea, what would you suggest as the solution for these warnings?
> >
> > (This was already reported as part of the discussion on emacs-devel,
> > but we never finalized the solution for this aspect.)
> 
> I attached a possible fix.  Does it make sense?

Thanks, but let's wait for Andrea to chime in.  He knows the
subtleties of this code better than anyone, and I wouldn't assume
lexical-binding always does TRT there without his say-so.

Message #17 received at 77918 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>
To: Roi Martin <jroi.martin <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 77918 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77918: 31.0.50; Warnings about missing 'lexical-binding'
 cookie in *Async-native-compile-log*
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:03:53 -0400

Roi Martin <jroi.martin <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Andrea, what would you suggest as the solution for these warnings?
>>
>> (This was already reported as part of the discussion on emacs-devel,
>> but we never finalized the solution for this aspect.)
>
> I attached a possible fix.  Does it make sense?

Thanks it does to me.  Is it tested?

  Andrea

Message #20 received at 77918 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Roi Martin <jroi.martin <at> gmail.com>
To: Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 77918 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77918: 31.0.50; Warnings about missing 'lexical-binding'
 cookie in *Async-native-compile-log*
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:23:21 +0200

Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Thanks it does to me.  Is it tested?

It seems to work fine on my machine.  This is the contents of
*Async-native-compile-log* after applying the patch:

  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/icomplete.el...
  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el...
  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/progmodes/compile.el...
  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/text-property-search.el...
  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/comint.el...
  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/ansi-osc.el...
  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/ansi-color.el...
  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/ring.el...
  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/rx.el...
  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-lib.el...
  Compilation finished.
  Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/display-line-numbers.el...
  Compilation finished.

This is how one random temporary file looks like (I elided
native-comp-eln-load-path and load-path to shorten the output):

  ==> emacs-async-comp-time-date-5tSTnM.el <==
  ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
  (require 'comp)(setq comp-async-compilation t warning-fill-column most-positive-fixnum)(setq comp-file-preloaded-p 'nil native-comp-verbose '0 native-comp-eln-load-path '(...) load-path '(...) byte-compile-warnings 't)nil(message "Compiling %s..." "/home/n/src/emacs/lisp/calendar/time-date.el")(comp--native-compile "/home/n/src/emacs/lisp/calendar/time-date.el" t)

Also, eln files are created under 'eln-cache' in the init directory.

However, I did not run any additional test.  Is there any specific thing
you want me to check?

Message #25 received at 77918-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>
To: Roi Martin <jroi.martin <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 77918-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77918: 31.0.50; Warnings about missing 'lexical-binding'
 cookie in *Async-native-compile-log*
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:37:37 -0400

Roi Martin <jroi.martin <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Thanks it does to me.  Is it tested?
>
> It seems to work fine on my machine.  This is the contents of
> *Async-native-compile-log* after applying the patch:
>
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/icomplete.el...
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el...
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/progmodes/compile.el...
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/text-property-search.el...
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/comint.el...
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/ansi-osc.el...
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/ansi-color.el...
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/ring.el...
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/rx.el...
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-lib.el...
>   Compilation finished.
>   Compiling /home/n/src/emacs/lisp/display-line-numbers.el...
>   Compilation finished.
>
> This is how one random temporary file looks like (I elided
> native-comp-eln-load-path and load-path to shorten the output):
>
>   ==> emacs-async-comp-time-date-5tSTnM.el <==
>   ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
>   (require 'comp)(setq comp-async-compilation t warning-fill-column
> most-positive-fixnum)(setq comp-file-preloaded-p 'nil
> native-comp-verbose '0 native-comp-eln-load-path '(...) load-path
> '(...) byte-compile-warnings 't)nil(message "Compiling %s..."
> "/home/n/src/emacs/lisp/calendar/time-date.el")(comp--native-compile
> "/home/n/src/emacs/lisp/calendar/time-date.el" t)
>
> Also, eln files are created under 'eln-cache' in the init directory.
>
> However, I did not run any additional test.  Is there any specific thing
> you want me to check?

Thanks I think is okay.  I've installed your patch with 3098d34bfd1.

I'm also closing the bug.

Thanks!

  Andrea

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