Re: make-autoloads phase fails

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 at 20:50, jgart <jgart@dismail.de> wrote:

> https://github.com/jkitchin/ox-ipynb

> (define-public emacs-ox-ipynb
>   (let ((commit "9bf8db38bf18feb0484931877210cecfaa96bfc6")

This commit is not in the Git tree anymore.  And that’s annoying.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>From https://github.com/jkitchin/ox-ipynb
 * [new branch]      cell-metadata -> origin/cell-metadata
 * [new branch]      master        -> origin/master
fatal: reference is not a tree: 9bf8db38bf18feb0484931877210cecfaa96bfc6
git-fetch: 
'/gnu/store/h14ww8br1d7fypc5yzr8dlf3rjv3ad28-git-minimal-2.37.2/bin/git 
checkout 9bf8db38bf18feb0484931877210cecfaa96bfc6' failed with exit code 128
[...]
SWH: found revision 9bf8db38bf18feb0484931877210cecfaa96bfc6 with directory at 
'https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/directory/a0253e6d4e2ad45d774c38a6dff262d4b227ff6e/'
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


> Failure:

The failure starts there:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
starting phase `install'
error: No files found to install.
info: considering installing README.rst
info: considering installing LICENSE.rst
info: considering installing python-pytest.el
info: python-pytest.el included as it matches "^[^/]*\.el$"
info: python-pytest.el excluded as it matches "^[^/]*tests?\.el$"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

then the message seems helpful…

> starting phase `make-autoloads'
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-missing "Opening directory" "No such file 
> or directory"
> "/gnu/store/hn4yazgk591kibpr5zfp3cspjiijddla-emacs-...")

…it means something is missing. :-)


Well, I have not investigated why.  Probably because something is done
differently by the Emacs packager.


Cheers,
simon