Re: max-specpdl-size mysterium with nXhtml

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Lennart Borgman
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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?

Romain, do you have anything to say about this?

> Seems like pure space shoudl be increased.
>