"Failed to byte-compile..."

[notUserX]

Hi,

I've been experiencing a number of byte-compile errors with various configurations, so I decided to pare everything down.

I wrote a script that uninstalls emacs (railwaycat's "Mac port"), reinstalls emacs, deletes ~/.emacs.d, clones Radian, and then sets the Radian symlinks so I can report based a "clean" install -- without an init.local.el.

Running this, I am now experiencing "Failed to byte-compile: Building straight not allowed in safe mode"

Is this expected?

Thanks,
Matthew

[raxod502]

No - packages should get built during init, and then when byte-compilation happens after init, the packages should already be built, and safe mode is set by Radian to enforce that, since otherwise something has gone wrong with the modification detection system. Are your packages getting rebuilt every time you start up?

[notUserX]

My packages are not rebuilt every time I start up.

Apologies, but I may have misspoken when I said that I was getting the "Failed to byte-compile: Building straight not allowed in safe mode" without an init.local.el. I may actually have had some init.local.el that I incorrectly believed would be trivial.

In any case, when I start with --debug-init now and ...

a) no init.local.el, Messages reports: Byte-compiled updated configuration

b) the following init.local.el, Messages reports: Failed to byte-compile: Running before straight

(radian-local-on-hook before-straight
  (message "Running before straight"))

Likewise when init.local.el contains only a simple message statement, the byte-compile fails.

Thanks,
Matthew

[raxod502]

Yes, that's correct. It's expected that there are no messages written during init.

[notUserX]

But why would an init.local.el that contains only

(radian-local-on-hook before-straight
  (message "Running before straight"))

fail to byte-compile?

[raxod502]

I intentionally wrote the byte-compilation system to insist on no messages being printed, on the one hand to keep init clean, on another hand to avoid rendering issues caused by printing messages during early-init, and on a third hand to lint against any warnings being printed, without having to identify which ones in particular might be a problem:

radian/scripts/byte-compile.bash

Lines 6 to 16 in 3f97e11

	(emacs --batch \
	--eval "(progn \
	(setq straight-safe-mode t \
	radian-compiling t) \
	(load (expand-file-name \"init.el\" \
	user-emacs-directory) nil t))" \
	--funcall radian-batch-byte-compile 2>&1 \
	| (grep -v "In toplevel form" || true) \
	| (grep -v "In end of data" || true) \
	| (grep -v "Warning: Package cl is deprecated" || true) \
	| (! grep .)) || (rm -f emacs/radian.elc; false)