Re: Using 'git bisect' to pinpoint errors in .emacs. Was: Fatal error 11: Segmentation Fault

[Emanuel Berg]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> FWIW, IME bisection is only helpful when you
> cannot reproduce the issue at will or easily
> enough. If reproduction is easy, it is much
> more useful to debug the failure than to find
> the change which is to blame, because finding
> that change in most cases still doesn't tell
> you how to fix the problem, certainly not
> with a segfault.

Good point, but still, let's think about
the change.

`package-initialize' is key #1. If it is done
before the packs are refered to (?) or used, it
works once, then crashes.

If package-initialize is used first thing, it
always works.

The byte-compiler is key #2. One can always
remedy the situation by byte-compiling
everything again ... but how come?

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