bug#5190: 23.1; Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not provided

[Bastien]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Trying to compile (make boostrap) the latest CVS version, I got this:

,----
| In toplevel form:
| net/newsticker.el:404:1:Error: Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not provided
| make[2]: *** [/home/guerry/install/cvs/emacs/lisp/net/newsticker.elc] Erreur 1
| make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /home/guerry/install/cvs/emacs/lisp »
| make[1]: *** [compile-main] Erreur 2
| make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /home/guerry/install/cvs/emacs/lisp »
| make: *** [lisp] Erreur 2
`----

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
`bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/etc/DEBUG for instructions.

In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.1)
of 2009-07-29 on bzg
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10605000
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: fr_FR.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Message

Minor modes in effect:
mml-mode: t
gnus-message-citation-mode: t
show-paren-mode: t
display-time-mode: t
pc-selection-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
global-auto-composition-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: lambda

Recent input:
C-s C-s C-s C-s C-a C-e C-x C-e C-x o C-x C-g C-x d
<return> C-c g <up> <C-left> <C-left> M-d p r o v i
d e . C-d * C-e <return> C-c g <up> <C-left> <left>
<C-backspace> <return> C-c g <up> <C-left> <left> .
<return> C-c g <up> <C-left> <left> <left> n e w s
t i c k e r C-e <return> C-c g <up> <C-left> <backspace>
<backspace> - C-e <return> C-x C-f n e <tab> w <tab>
i <tab> k <backspace> <return> C-x 1 C-s C-g M-< C-s
n e w s t i c k e r - b a C-s C-s C-a C-e C-a <down>
<down> C-e <down> C-a C-e <C-left> <C-left> C-s b a
c k e n d C-s C-s C-s C-s C-a C-e <down> C-x C-e C-x
o C-x 1 <down> <down> C-e <down> C-e <up> C-e <down>
C-e <down> C-a <down> C-e C-a C-e <C-up> <up> <up>
<up> <up> C-x 2 C-x o C-x C-f <up> <C-backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<tab> - <help-echo> b a <tab> <return> M-> <C-up> <C-up>
<down> C-e C-a C-e <C-left> C-a C-e C-a <C-up> <C-up>
<C-down> <C-up> <C-up> <C-up> <C-up> <C-up> <C-up>
<C-up> <C-up> <C-up> C-x o C-x C-g <help-echo> C-x
1 C-x k <return> C-x k <return> C-x k <return> C-x
k <return> C-z k p n <return> <return> n n SPC <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> a <C-down> <down> C-x r i a
<return> <return> <C-up> <C-up> <down> C-e C-a C-e
<down> <C-down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <C-right>
<C-right> <C-right> <C-right> <C-right> <C-right> <C-right>
<C-left> C-SPC C-SPC C-e M-w M-x b u g - r e <tab>
<tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
r e p o r <tab> b u <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Invalid face reference: t [253 times]
Replacing field "last-subj" with "Re: [23.1.50] C-y not processed immediately on a terminal"
Invalid face reference: t [57 times]
Replacing field "last-subj" with "Re: Cannot open termcap database"
Formatting...done.
Invalid face reference: t [949 times]
Mark set [2 times]
Mark activated
Region saved
Making completion list...

--
Bastien

[Ulf Jasper]

Bastien <bastie...@googlemail.com> writes:
> Trying to compile (make boostrap) the latest CVS version, I got this:
>
> ,----
> | In toplevel form:
> | net/newsticker.el:404:1:Error: Required feature `newsticker-backend' was not provided
> | make[2]: *** [/home/guerry/install/cvs/emacs/lisp/net/newsticker.elc] Erreur 1
> | make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /home/guerry/install/cvs/emacs/lisp »
> | make[1]: *** [compile-main] Erreur 2
> | make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /home/guerry/install/cvs/emacs/lisp »
> | make: *** [lisp] Erreur 2
> `----

Newsticker's require/provide statements have been changed from
newsticker-* to newst-*. newsticker.el should not contain any (require
'newsticker-*) but only (require 'newst-*). See bug#5008.

Are you sure that you are using the latest newsticker files from CVS?

[Bastien]

Ulf Jasper <ulf.j...@web.de> writes:

Quite so. I did this:

~$ cd install/cvs/emacs/
~$ make distclean
~$ cvs update -dP
~$ ./configure
~$ make bootstrap

from the CVS repo.

--
Bastien

[Chong Yidong]

> > Newsticker's require/provide statements have been changed from
> > newsticker-* to newst-*. newsticker.el should not contain any (require
> > 'newsticker-*) but only (require 'newst-*). See bug#5008.
> >
> > Are you sure that you are using the latest newsticker files from CVS?
>
> Quite so. I did this:
>
> ~$ cd install/cvs/emacs/
> ~$ make distclean
> ~$ cvs update -dP
> ~$ ./configure
> ~$ make bootstrap
>
> from the CVS repo.

And what is on line 404 of lisp/net/newsticker.el? It should be

(require 'newst-ticker)

Maybe you somehow got sticky tags on your copy; try `cvs up -A' and see
if that clears it up.

[tcaswell]

I had the same problem. It seemed to be that the *.elc files were not
properly removed/rebuilt and still using the old version. deleting all
of the existing .elc files by running

~$ find ./ -iname "*.elc" -exec rm \{\} \;

fixed the problem for me.

[Ulf Jasper]

tcaswell <tcas...@gmail.com> writes:
> I had the same problem. It seemed to be that the *.elc files were not
> properly removed/rebuilt and still using the old version. deleting all
> of the existing .elc files by running
>
> ~$ find ./ -iname "*.elc" -exec rm \{\} \;
>
> fixed the problem for me.

Making bootstrap depends on bootstrap-clean which is supposed to remove
all *.elc files from the lisp directory, its subdirectories,
subsubdirectories, and subsubsubdirectories. There should not have been
any old *.elc files.

Even if there are old *.elc files, they should be rebuilt after a
bzr/cvs/whatever-update that contained new versions of the corresponding
*.el files.

Strange.