Re: [gforth] After updating to Emacs 24.3, "Source file `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-list/gforth.el' newer than byte-compiled file"

[Donald Winiecki]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Bernd Paysan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am Montag, 24. März 2014, 17:52:24 schrieb Anton Ertl:
>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 05:19:47AM -0600, Donald Winiecki wrote:
>> > I have recently updated my Emacs setup to Emacs 24.3 on Ubuntu 12.4.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> > "Source file `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-list/gforth.el' newer than
>> > byte-compiled file"
>>
>> I recently read that Debian is disabling byte compilation for
>> gforth.el.  Maybe that has to do with that (although that was much
>> more recent than 12.4).  Anyway, David, you may want to look into Bug
>> #738819 <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738819>.
>
> Gforth's git head gforth.el byte-compiles with Emacs 24.x (both git-head of
> the master and the v0-7 branch). I also backported changes for compiling with
> GCC 4.8.x. Should we release 0.7.4 and point Debian to those releases?
>
> --
> Bernd Paysan
> "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
> http://bernd-paysan.de/

I attempted to update gforth to 0.7.3 but it throws errors on
attemping to byte compile gforth.el for emacs24.

Uninstalling all the way back to the version that is available on
Ubuntu 12.4 dist (0.7.0) didn't help. In fact, when I uninstalled
gforth-0.7.0 and tried to reinstall it, the same failure occurs.

Despite all the errors the installations appear to go okay and
versions from 0.7.0 to 0.7.3 appear to run without drama in Emacs 24.3

Here is the terminal trace for attempting to install gforth 0.7.0 from
Ubuntu dist:

address@hidden:~$ sudo apt-get install gforth
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gforth
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/431 kB of archives.
After this operation, 839 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package gforth.
(Reading database ... 627734 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gforth (from .../gforth_0.7.0+ds1-7_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for install-info ...
Setting up gforth (0.7.0+ds1-7) ...
Install gforth for emacs
Install gforth for emacs24
install/gforth: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs24

In toplevel form:
gforth.el:742:18:Error: Don't know how to compile nil
gforth.el:742:18:Error: Don't know how to compile nil
gforth.el:742:18:Error: Don't know how to compile nil
gforth.el:742:18:Error: Don't know how to compile nil
gforth.el:742:18:Error: Don't know how to compile nil
ERROR: install script from gforth package failed
dpkg: error processing gforth (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gforth
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

_don