Re: max-specpdl-size mysterium with nXhtml

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Lennart Borgman
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Stefan Monnier
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I have got a bug report that I do not understand at all and would
>>> appreciate any help and thoughts. Chris, a user, gets an error when he
>>> opens a file with nXhtml in Emacs. The error is
>>
>>>   Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
>>
>>> This happens during fontification with MuMaMo. I have not been able to
>>> reproduce this problem myself, but another user, ecce, has seen the
>>> same problem. It disappeared however when he upgraded. (I have asked
>>> ecce to test the file Chris have problems with too.)
>>
>> Could depends on whether (and which) files have been byte-compiled.
>
> Thanks, Stefan.
>
> Chris is using ubuntu and he said that he is using
> "emacs-snapshot=1:20081205-1 installed from the PPA". I have just
> asked him to check out and compile Emacs himself if he can.

I got this reply from Chris

  I built Emacs from source and the max-specpdl-error went away. On
  startup, emacs gives the warning

     Warning (initialization): Building Emacs overflowed pure space.
  (See the node Pure Storage in the Lisp manual for details.)

Is there perhaps a problem with the PPA distro in Ubuntu? Is this the
same as on Debian?

Seems like pure space shoudl be increased.