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

[Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>]

Andi Hechtbauer <anti@spin.de> writes:

> 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 ;-)

Well it's actually debian including a patch that's also been included
upstream.  It was a patch to fix things so that emacs built
--with-x=yes and emacs --with-x=no wouldn't have spurious differences
in some of its files.

I wrote the patch initially and RMS included it upstream, but I had
the same build problem here when I tried to compile the latest gnus.
I haven't have time to fully investigate, but what I did find out was
that the problem can be fixed by removing the "members sort".  The
all-subdirs sort doesn't seem to cause trouble.

> 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.

If you look in /usr/share/doc/emacsen21-common/README.Debian.gz, it
mentions the relevant patch near the end.  You can "apt-get source
emacs21" and look in debian/patch to see the actual diff, or just grab
the debian diff file.

> ,----
> | 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.
> `----

I'll need to see what RMS changed back and fix that here too.

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Rob Browning
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