Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: Hi chaps,
> Ha, that's a funny one, thanks: I'm always happy to provide funny bug puzzles. :-) > The problem comes from `package-get-version` being autoloaded from > `package` which requires a few other packages, in this case > `browse-url` which itself requires `url` which ends up loading > `auctex/styles/url.el` (which itself requires `tex`, hence the loop) > because we add the `styles` subdir to the `load-path` for a reason > that escapes me. > > The additional patch below seems to fix it. > The `styles` subdir was added to the compilation's `load-path` by: > > commit a9c37b7ecd2353093fbecc84561fcace1ac8be80 > Author: Tassilo Horn <t...@gnu.org> > Date: Sun Oct 25 16:07:28 2020 +0100 > > ; Add new make target dynvars-check > > Tassilo, do you remember why you did that? No, not at all. And as you say, it's not needed for the dynvars-check. I've removed styles from load-path now. Bye, Tassilo