bug#52945: closed (29.0.50; Recursive load of uni-special-lowercase.el)

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> 29.0.50; Recursive load of uni-special-lowercase.el
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> Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:18:41 -0500
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> Package: Emacs
> Version: 29.0.50
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> Report by Eli to `emacs-devel`:
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> There's some strange problem with this file: when building Emacs after
> it is updated, byte-compilation of various Lisp files fails with error
> message like this:
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>   File local-variables error: (error Recursive load
> /home/eliz/git/emacs/branch/lisp/international/uni-special-lowercase.el
> /home/eliz/git/emacs/branch/lisp/international/uni-special-lowercase.el
> /home/eliz/git/emacs/branch/lisp/international/uni-special-lowercase.el
> /home/eliz/git/emacs/branch/lisp/international/uni-special-lowercase.el
> /home/eliz/git/emacs/branch/lisp/international/uni-special-lowercase.el)
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>   In toplevel form:
>   international/mule.el:1833:8: Error: Recursive load:
> "/home/eliz/git/emacs/branch/lisp/international/uni-special-lowercase.el",
> "/home/eliz/git/emacs/branch/lisp/international/uni-special-lowercase.el",
> "/home/eliz/git/emacs/branch/lisp/international/uni-special-lowercase.el",
> "/home/eliz/git/emacs/branch/lisp/international/uni-special-lowercase.el",
> "/home/eliz/git/emacs/branch/lisp/international/uni-special-lowercase.el",
> "/home/eliz/git/emacs/branch/lisp/international/uni-special-uppercase.el"
>   Makefile:290: recipe for target '../lisp/international/mule.elc' failed
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> I guess we try to lower-case some parts of the file-local variables
> section, and that causes recursive load or something?
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> I couldn't get around this except by removing the file-local vars from
> the file.
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> Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:26:19 -0500
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)
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> > There's some strange problem with this file: when building Emacs after
> > it is updated, byte-compilation of various Lisp files fails with error
> > message like this:
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> Indeed I can reproduce it with:
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>     make
>     touch lisp/international/{ucs-normalize,charprop,uni-special-lowercase}.el
>     make
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> It seems it is newly introduced by the symbol-shorthands
> code, which apparently uses just enough more of the `hack-local-variables`
> machinery to trigger it.
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> Not sure what's the best fix for it, but I installed a patch into
> `emacs-28` which seems to work around the problem.
> Maybe we should drop the lazy loading feature of lisp/international/uni-*
> since those files end up preloaded anyway.
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>         Stefan
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