byte compiling of apel package fails

[wilk]

I can't install the latest emacs-snapshot build. byte-compiling of apel fails. Here is the beginning of the error log:

emacs-snapshot -q -no-site-file -batch -l __myinit.el -f batch-byte
Loading `static': old-style backquotes detected!
Loading `pym': old-style backquotes detected!
Loading `product': old-style backquotes detected!
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/apel/alist.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/apel/apel-ver.elc
Eager macro-expansion failure: (wrong-type-argument sequencep 769)

many wrong-type-argument errors follow.

[Don Lindsay (don-lindsay-x)]

this appears to be related to my comments about: https://bugs.launchpad.net/emacs-snapshot/+bug/1214053

[Mohammad Razavi (mrazavi)]

I have the same issue when installing the latest emacs-snapshot from cassou-emacs PPA in ubuntu 12.04. The postinst script will end up with the error:

install/apel: byte-compiling for emacs-snapshot, logged in /tmp/elc.nXkq00vegmFb
emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/apel emacs-snapshot emacs23 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 15.

I tracked the error and it was from this command:

emacs-snapshot -q -no-site-file -batch -l __myinit.el -f batch-byte-compile alist.el apel-ver.el atype.el broken.el calist.el emu.el file-detect.el filename.el install.el inv-19.el inv-23.el invisible.el mcharset.el mcs-20.el mcs-e20.el mule-caesar.el path-util.el pccl-20.el pccl.el pces-20.el pces-e20.el pces.el pcustom.el poe.el poem-e20_3.el poem-e20.el poem.el product.el pym.el richtext.el static.el tinycustom.el

The error message was:

Wrote /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/apel/alist.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/apel/apel-ver.elc
Eager macro-expansion failure: (wrong-type-argument sequencep 769)
Loading `poe': old-style backquotes detected!

In toplevel form:
atype.el:28:1:Error: Wrong type argument: sequencep, 769
Eager macro-expansion failure: (wrong-type-argument sequencep 769)
Loading `poe': old-style backquotes detected!

...

[Mohammad Razavi (mrazavi)]

This debian bug report might be related to the issue:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718765

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

@wilk what is your ubuntu version?

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

I just managed to install emacs-snapshot on 12.04.

[wilk (j-cubizolles)]

Damien Cassou <email address hidden> writes:

> @wilk what is your ubuntu version?
I'm running Ubuntu 13.04

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

@wilk, it works for me. Please consider reexecuting all the steps described at https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs/

[wilk (j-cubizolles)]

Damien Cassou <email address hidden> writes:

> @wilk, it works for me. Please consider reexecuting all the steps
> described at https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs/

I followed your directions, the apel package was removed and the other
packages were byte-compiled without errors but I can't install apel
anymore (not that I need it).

Julien.

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

Good to know. I will add apel to the list of packages to delete :-).