Re: Wrong type argument: stringp when Generating cus-load.el

[Andi Hechtbauer <anti@spin.de>]

Hi,

[CVS gnus wouldn't compile with cus-dep.el(c) in emacs21(-el) 21.2-5]

    Andi> I just installed the .el files.  Hopefully this is a more
    Andi> interessting Backtrace now: [...]

    Katsumi> I see.  That file is the thing of Emacs 21.3.50, and,
    Katsumi> moreover, there is a bug.

Hm, if that is true, debian is to blame.  Or me, living on the
unstable edge ;-)

Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> (Cc set) packaged this file with
emacs21-el Version 21.2-5 -- the file itself has no hint about
version.  And changelog.Debian.gz isn't suggesting this, either.

M-x version tells me I'd be running 21.2.2.

Checking with a freshly downloaded 21.2 tarball shows this:

.../emacs-21.2/lisp$ diff cus-dep.el ~/tmp/cus-dep.el-debian 
38c38
<       (all-subdirs command-line-args-left)
---
>       (all-subdirs (sort command-line-args-left 'string<))
88a89,90
>                   ;; So x and no-x builds won't differ.
>                   (setq members (sort members 'string<))

so obviously the debian maintainer applied a patch.

    Andi> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp
    Andi> (mm-inline-text-html-with-w3m-keymap custom-variable))

    Andi> (setq members (sort members (quote string<)))

    Katsumi> It has been fixed by RMS as follows:

,----
| 2002-09-19  Richard M. Stallman  <rms@gnu.org>
| 
| 	* cus-dep.el (custom-make-dependencies): Fix previous change.
| 
| 2002-09-18  Richard M. Stallman  <rms@gnu.org>
| [...]
| 	* cus-dep.el (custom-make-dependencies): Sort MEMBERS before use.
`----

After replacing the debian cus-dep.el with the tarball one, and byte
compiling cus-dep.el, cvs gnus compiles as expected.

Thank you so much for looking into this!

Andi