Compilation failure about zenburn-emacs

[bbatsov]

I've never had the opportunity to test zenburn under OSX, but I'm surprised that it doesn't work properly with Emacs 23.2. I'll do some testing soon and I let you know when I have some solution for your problem.

[bbatsov]

I've just tested zenburn with Emacs 23.3 from http://emacsformacosx.com/ and it works just fine on OSX Lion. Maybe you could give this version of Emacs a try? Alternatively you could download the entire emacs-dev-kit that I maintain - it comes with zenburn prepackaged and is known to work on OSX as well.

[Jessidhia]

The problem is that I also get a compilation error on Arch Linux's emacs:

$ emacs --version
GNU Emacs 23.3.2
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
(...)
$ emacs --batch --eval '(progn (load-file "init.el") (byte-recompile-directory "." 0))'
Loading /home/kovensky/.emacs.d/init.el (source)...
Loading /home/kovensky/.emacs.d/custom.el (source)...
Loading /home/kovensky/.emacs.d/site-lisp/some-emacs-goodies-el/color-theme-library.el (source)...
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Checking /home/kovensky/.emacs.d...
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Checking /home/kovensky/.emacs.d/site-lisp/theme-roller...
Checking /home/kovensky/.emacs.d/site-lisp/yaml-mode...
Checking /home/kovensky/.emacs.d/site-lisp/zenburn-emacs...
Compiling /home/kovensky/.emacs.d/site-lisp/zenburn-emacs/color-theme-zenburn.el...

In toplevel form:
site-lisp/zenburn-emacs/color-theme-zenburn.el:96:4:Error: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
Checking /home/kovensky/.emacs.d/site-lisp/emacs-pod-mode/lib...
Checking /home/kovensky/.emacs.d/site-lisp/theme-roller/themes...
Checking /home/kovensky/.emacs.d/site-lisp/emacs-pod-mode/lib/Emacs...
Done (Total of 0 files compiled, 1 failed)

My ~/.emacs.d is mirrored on https://github.com/Kovensky/.emacs.d/, in case you need to look at anything from it...
I'll give the emacs-dev-kit a try though.

[bbatsov]

Hmm, that's odd. I'm assuming it works without the byte-compilation, though. I have to investigate this further since I rarely do byte-compilation because few modes benefit significantly from it.

[bbatsov]

Btw I've released a version of the theme for Emacs 24. If you're in the mood for testing you might install Emacs 24 from brew and try it out.

[trss]

I have the exact same issue and I installed it using ELPA from Marmalade repository. But it works nevertheless. This is the error I get..

Leaving directory `/home/trss/.emacs.d/elpa/color-theme-6.6.1'

Compiling file /home/trss/.emacs.d/elpa/color-theme-6.6.1/color-theme-pkg.el at Fri Oct  7 15:09:03 2011
Entering directory `/home/trss/.emacs.d/elpa/color-theme-6.6.1/'

Compiling file /home/trss/.emacs.d/elpa/color-theme-6.6.1/color-theme.el at Fri Oct  7 15:09:03 2011
color-theme.el:50:1:Warning: cl package required at runtime

In color-theme-install-variables:
color-theme.el:1207:10:Warning: `make-variable-frame-local' is an obsolete
    function (as of Emacs 22.2); explicitly check for a frame-parameter
    instead.

In end of data:
color-theme.el:1379:1:Warning: the following functions are not known to be defined:
    color-theme-initialize, color-theme-face-attr-construct,
    set-face-property, color-theme-spec-compat

Compiling no file at Fri Oct  7 15:12:25 2011
Leaving directory `/home/trss/.emacs.d/elpa/color-theme-zenburn-0.3'

Compiling file /home/trss/.emacs.d/elpa/color-theme-zenburn-0.3/color-theme-zenburn-pkg.el at Fri Oct  7 15:12:25 2011
Entering directory `/home/trss/.emacs.d/elpa/color-theme-zenburn-0.3/'

Compiling file /home/trss/.emacs.d/elpa/color-theme-zenburn-0.3/color-theme-zenburn.el at Fri Oct  7 15:12:25 2011
color-theme-zenburn.el:96:4:Error: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size

Thanks

[pibako]

The same problem here with marmalade and Emacs 24.0.91 on OS X Lion:

color-theme-zenburn.el:96:4:Error: Lisp nesting exceeds `max-lisp-eval-depth'

[bbatsov]

You shouldn't use color-theme-zenburn with Emacs 24. Use zenburn-theme.el instead. It's not in Marmalade yet, but it's much nicer than the color-theme package version of the theme.

[pibako]

Now I see it. Thanks.