recursive load when byte compiling?

[ledbettj]

Hi,

Apologies if this is not a seq.el issue, or if it's a user-error problem 😄.

I have several packages installed through (m)elpa on Emacs 25.0.50.1 on OS X, several of which require seq.el as a dependency. Just recently, perhaps after a package update, I am now seeing (error "Recursive load") when emacs starts:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Recursive load" 
"/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc" 
"/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.elc" 
"/Users/john/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq-25.el" 
"/Users/john/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq.el" 
"/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.elc" 
"/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc" 
"/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.elc" 
"/Users/john/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq-25.el"
"/Users/john/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq.el" 
"/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.elc" 
"/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc" 
"/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.elc" 
"/Users/john/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq-25.el"
"/Users/john/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq.el" 
"/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.elc" 
"/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc" 
"/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.elc" 
"/Users/john/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq-25.el"
"/Users/john/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq.el" 
"/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.elc" 
"/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc" 
"/Users/john/.emacs.d/elpa/use-package-20160403.1129/use-package.elc"
 "/Users/john/.emacs.d/init.el"
)

Full error output

Any ideas or pointers?

[NicolasPetton]

If you change (require 'cl-lib) with (require 'cl-extra) in seq-25.el, does that fix your problem?

[NicolasPetton]

Also, which commit of Emacs are you on?

[ledbettj]

Thanks for the response. Changing (require 'cl-lib) to c-extra doesn't seem to help.

I see in cl-extra.el:

;;; cl-extra.el --- Common Lisp features, part 2  -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
;; ...
(require 'cl-lib)
(require 'seq)

Which I assume is causing the same problem.

emacs-version says:

GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.3.0, NS appkit-1347.57 Version 10.10.3 (Build 14D136)) of 2015-04-27 on nix.local

Which looks pretty old. I don't see a 14D136 commit in the repo, and emacs-repository-version is nil. If you think it might make a difference, I can try with a newer build.

[ledbettj]

I reinstalled emacs (brew install emacs --devel --with-cocoa) and got:

GNU Emacs 25.0.92.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.4.0, NS appkit-1404.46 Version 10.11.4 (Build 15E65)) of 2016-04-04

And the issue is no longer present -- Thanks for the help troubleshooting!

[NicolasPetton]

great!