Byte-compilation fails, uninstallable

[Ilmari Vacklin]

On Karmic, I have emacs-snapshot installed. Installing jde fails due to eieio configuration failing on byte compiling:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
7 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up eieio (1:1.0pre4-3) ...
install/cedet-common: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs-snapshot
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-autogen.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-compat.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-edebug.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-files.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-load.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/ezimage.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/fame.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/inversion.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/mode-local.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/pprint.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/sformat.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/working.elc
install/eieio: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs-snapshot

In toplevel form:
chart.el:166:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: outbuffer

In toplevel form:
eieio-base.el:56:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: outbuffer
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/eieio/eieio-comp.elc

In toplevel form:
eieio-custom.el:323:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: outbuffer
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/eieio/eieio-doc.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/eieio/eieio-load.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/eieio/eieio-opt.elc

In toplevel form:
eieio-speedbar.el:197:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: outbuffer

In toplevel form:
eieio-test-methodinvoke.el:78:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: outbuffer

In toplevel form:
eieio.el:1949:39:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: outbuffer

In toplevel form:
linemark.el:243:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: outbuffer
emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/eieio emacs-snapshot emacs-snapshot failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, <TSORT> line 2.
dpkg: error processing eieio (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ede:
 ede depends on eieio (>= 1:1.0pre4-3); however:
  Package eieio is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ede (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of semantic:
 semantic depends on ede; however:
  Package ede is not configured yet.
 semantic depends on eieio (>= 1:1.0pre4-3); however:
  Package eieio is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing semantic (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cedet-contrib:
 cedet-contrib depends on semantic (>= 1:1.0pre4-3); however:
  Package semantic is not confiNo apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
gured yet.
dpkg: error processing cedet-contrib (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cogre:
 cogre depends on semantic (>= 1:1.0pre4-3); however:
  Package semantic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing cogre (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ecb:
 ecb depends on eieio (>= 1.1); however:
  Package eieio is not configured yet.
 ecb depends on semantic (>= 1.1); however:
  Package semantic is not configured yet.
 ecb depends on cedet-contrib (>= 1.1); however:
  Package cedet-contrib is not configured yet.
 ecb depends on cogre (>= 1.1); however:
  Package cogre is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ecb (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of jde:
 jde depends on cedet-contrib (>= 1:1.0pre4-2); however:
  Package cedet-contrib is not configured yet.
 jde depends on cogre (>= 1:1.0pre4-2); however:
  Package cogre is not configured yet.
 jde depends on eieio (>= 1:1.0pre4-2); however:
  Package eieio is not configured yet.
 jde depends on semantic (>= 1:1.0pre4-2); however:
  Package semantic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing jde (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 eieio
 ede
 semantic
 cedet-contrib
 cogre
 ecb
 jde
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 29 16:21:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: eieio 1:1.0pre4-3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: cedet
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686