Re: strange build problem with missing -by.el and -wy.el files

[Gregor Zattler]

Hi Eli,
* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2022-11-01; 09:04 +02]:
>> From: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>
>> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 23:09:45 +0100
[...]
>> Line 35 in lisp/cedet/semantic/bovine/c.el reads:
>>
>> (require 'semantic/bovine/c-by)
>>
>> There is no semantic/bovine/c-by.el in the tree, but
>> cedet/Changelog.1 says it was removed in 2013-11-30 together
>> with other generated files.
>
> It was removed from Git, but it gets regenerated as part of the
> build.
>
>> c-by.el starts this way:
>
> So you do have c-by.el in the tree?  Now I'm confused.

This is a quote from a bug report email by Paul
Eggert I quoted.  It was another problem but also abut
the [bw]y.el files being produced earlier in the build
and some race condition.


[...]
>> So I copied several .el files which were not generated from
>> a not so old installation of emacs, like so:
>
> That's the wrong way of handling the problem.
>
> You need to understand why c-by.el is not generated as part of the
> build.  It's supposed to be generated by the rules in
> admin/grammars/Makefile.in, which run early on during the build.  It
> is run via the rule in lisp/Makefile.in for the target "semantic",
> look around line 415 in that file.  Why doesn't that happen in your
> case?

Because I get "Args out of range: "master", 0, 7"
errors when building these files:

0 ((e39537ea1e...)) grfz@no:~/src/emacs-master-next/lisp$ make V=1 semantic
make -C ../admin/grammars all EMACS="../../src/emacs"
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/grfz/src/emacs-master-next/admin/grammars'
[ ! -f "../../lisp/cedet/semantic/bovine/c-by.el" ] || chmod +w 
"../../lisp/cedet/semantic/bovine/c-by.el"
"../../src/emacs" -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --eval '(setq 
load-prefer-newer t)' -l semantic/bovine/grammar -f bovine-batch-make-parser -o 
"../../lisp/cedet/semantic/bovine/c-by.el" c.by
Loading semantic/grm-wy-boot...
Args out of range: "master", 0, 7
[ ! -f "../../lisp/cedet/semantic/bovine/make-by.el" ] || chmod +w 
"../../lisp/cedet/semantic/bovine/make-by.el"
"../../src/emacs" -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --eval '(setq 
load-prefer-newer t)' -l semantic/bovine/grammar -f bovine-batch-make-parser -o 
"../../lisp/cedet/semantic/bovine/make-by.el" make.by
Loading semantic/grm-wy-boot...
Args out of range: "master", 0, 7
[ ! -f "../../lisp/cedet/semantic/bovine/scm-by.el" ] || chmod +w 
"../../lisp/cedet/semantic/bovine/scm-by.el"
"../../src/emacs" -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --eval '(setq 
load-prefer-newer t)' -l semantic/bovine/grammar -f bovine-batch-make-parser -o 
"../../lisp/cedet/semantic/bovine/scm-by.el" scheme.by
Loading semantic/grm-wy-boot...
Args out of range: "master", 0, 7
[ ! -f "../../lisp/cedet/semantic/grammar-wy.el" ] || chmod +w 
"../../lisp/cedet/semantic/grammar-wy.el"
"../../src/emacs" -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --eval '(setq 
load-prefer-newer t)' -l semantic/wisent/grammar -f wisent-batch-make-parser -o 
"../../lisp/cedet/semantic/grammar-wy.el" grammar.wy
Loading semantic/grm-wy-boot...
Args out of range: "master", 0, 7
[ ! -f "../../lisp/cedet/semantic/wisent/javat-wy.el" ] || chmod +w 
"../../lisp/cedet/semantic/wisent/javat-wy.el"
"../../src/emacs" -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --eval '(setq 
load-prefer-newer t)' -l semantic/wisent/grammar -f wisent-batch-make-parser -o 
"../../lisp/cedet/semantic/wisent/javat-wy.el" java-tags.wy
Loading semantic/grm-wy-boot...
Args out of range: "master", 0, 7
[ ! -f "../../lisp/cedet/semantic/wisent/js-wy.el" ] || chmod +w 
"../../lisp/cedet/semantic/wisent/js-wy.el"
"../../src/emacs" -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --eval '(setq 
load-prefer-newer t)' -l semantic/wisent/grammar -f wisent-batch-make-parser -o 
"../../lisp/cedet/semantic/wisent/js-wy.el" js.wy
Loading semantic/grm-wy-boot...
Args out of range: "master", 0, 7
[ ! -f "../../lisp/cedet/semantic/wisent/python-wy.el" ] || chmod +w 
"../../lisp/cedet/semantic/wisent/python-wy.el"
"../../src/emacs" -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --eval '(setq 
load-prefer-newer t)' -l semantic/wisent/grammar -f wisent-batch-make-parser -o 
"../../lisp/cedet/semantic/wisent/python-wy.el" python.wy
Loading semantic/grm-wy-boot...
Args out of range: "master", 0, 7
[ ! -f "../../lisp/cedet/srecode/srt-wy.el" ] || chmod +w 
"../../lisp/cedet/srecode/srt-wy.el"
"../../src/emacs" -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --eval '(setq 
load-prefer-newer t)' -l semantic/wisent/grammar -f wisent-batch-make-parser -o 
"../../lisp/cedet/srecode/srt-wy.el" srecode-template.wy
Loading semantic/grm-wy-boot...
Args out of range: "master", 0, 7
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/grfz/src/emacs-master-next/admin/grammars'
0 ((e39537ea1e...)) grfz@no:~/src/emacs-master-next/lisp$


But I have no clue why this happens.

Ciao; Gregor
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