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Pieter Wenk <pwenk@urbanet.ch> writes:

> variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size.

This is a measure against infinite loops, I think.  It seems that
demanding Lisp packages sometimes need more than the normal limit.
You could try increasing the number: (setq max-specpdl-size 9999)

kai
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