bug#70355: emacs-29 build fails byte-compiling lisp/org/ox.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:14:38 +0200
> From: morf <amorfortia@gmail.com>
> 
> While wondering if this is the place to bring my issue, allow me to state it 
> nevertheless.
> 
> I was trying to compile emacs-29 from sources. However the build fails, and 
> chokes on byte-compiling
> lisp/org/ox.el:
> 
> ...
> make[3]: Entering directory '/home/bjd/mint/packages/emacs-mirror/lisp'
> '../src/emacs' -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --eval "(setq 
> load-prefer-newer t byte-compile-warnings 'all)"  -f
> batch-byte-compile org/ox.el
> 
> In toplevel form:
> org/ox.el:82:2: Error: Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Eager 
> macro-expansion failure: (error \"Eager
> macro-expansion failure: (error \\\"Eager macro-expansion skipped due to 
> cycle:
>   … => (load \\\\\\\"tramp-archive.el\\\\\\\") => (macroexpand-all …) => 
> (macroexpand (eval-and-compile …)) =>
> (load \\\\\\\"tramp-gvfs.el\\\\\\\") => (load \\\\\\\"tramp.el\\\\\\\") => 
> (load \\\\\\\"tramp-archive.el\\\\\\\")\\\")\")")
> Makefile:332: recipe for target 'org/ox.elc' failed
> make[3]: *** [org/ox.elc] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/bjd/mint/packages/emacs-mirror/lisp'
> Makefile:383: recipe for target 'main-first' failed
> make[2]: *** [main-first] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/bjd/mint/packages/emacs-mirror/lisp'
> Makefile:533: recipe for target 'lisp' failed
> make[1]: *** [lisp] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/bjd/mint/packages/emacs-mirror'
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/bjd/mint/packages/emacs-mirror'
> ***
> *** "make all" failed with exit status 2.
> ...
> 
> I think this can be traced back to byte-compiling lisp/org/org-element.el; 
> when I try to byte-compile that
> manually I do indeed get the error about Eager macro-expansion failure, but I 
> am unsure what actually causes
> this failure.
> 
> Comments?

I cannot reproduce that.  Suggest "make bootstrap".