Doom-emacs: Install Error

Please switch to develop. These issues have been fixed and are due to be merged into master soon.

Also, please don't close this thread. I'd like to keep it open until develop is merged.

Me too..
When I checkout develop..
Recursive load: "/home/liuxu/.emacs.d/modules/config/private/init.el", "/home/liuxu/.config/doom/init.el", "/home/liuxu/.emacs.d/modules/config/private/init.el", "/home/liuxu/.config/doom/init.el", "/home/liuxu/.emacs.d/modules/config/private/init.el", "/home/liuxu/.config/doom/init.el", "/home/liuxu/.emacs.d/modules/config/private/init.el", "/home/liuxu/.config/doom/init.el", "/home/liuxu/.emacs.d/modules/config/private/init.el", "/home/liuxu/.emacs.d/init.el"
Makefile:92: recipe for target '.local/autoloads.el' failed
make: * [.local/autoloads.el] Error 255

Are you on the latest develop? The config/private module has been removed and is no longer needed. Delete your ~/.emacs.d/init.el before updating to the latest Doom as it has been replaced with a default one.

liuxu:~$ git clone -b develop https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs ~/.emacs.dCloning into '/home/liuxu/.emacs.d'...
remote: Counting objects: 33294, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (143/143), done.
remote: Total 33294 (delta 136), reused 180 (delta 106), pack-reused 33044
Receiving objects: 100% (33294/33294), 9.37 MiB | 2.07 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (23004/23004), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
liuxu:~$ cd .emacs.d/
liuxu:.emacs.d$ git branch -av
* develop                    a582bdf app/calendar: fix typo causing void-variable error
  remotes/origin/HEAD        -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/develop     a582bdf app/calendar: fix typo causing void-variable error
  remotes/origin/master      5dacbb7 Merge branch 'develop'
  remotes/origin/screenshots e2956e5 Add screenshots
liuxu:.emacs.d$ cp init.example.el init.el
liuxu:.emacs.d$ make install
Symbol’s function definition is void: doom!
Makefile:93: recipe for target '.local/autoloads.el' failed
make: *** [.local/autoloads.el] Error 255

cp init.example.el init.el

Change this step to cp init.example.el ~/.doom.d/init.el

Doom now supplies a default init.el that should not be overwritten. The documentation will be updated to reflect this soon.

liuxu:~$ git clone -b develop https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs ~/.emacs.d
Cloning into '/home/liuxu/.emacs.d'...
remote: Counting objects: 33294, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (143/143), done.
remote: Total 33294 (delta 136), reused 180 (delta 106), pack-reused 33044
Receiving objects: 100% (33294/33294), 9.37 MiB | 2.05 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (23004/23004), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
liuxu:~$ mkdir .doom.d
liuxu:~$ cd .emacs.d/
liuxu:.emacs.d$ cp init.example.el ~/.doom.d/init.el
liuxu:.emacs.d$ make install
Installing core packages
Importing package-keyring.gpg...
Importing package-keyring.gpg...done
Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:443
Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:443
Contacting host: melpa.org:443
Contacting host: melpa.org:443
Contacting host: orgmode.org:443
Contacting host: orgmode.org:443
Package refresh done
✓ Installed persistent-soft
✓ Installed use-package
✓ Installed quelpa
✓ Installed async
Installing core packages...done
Warning: Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle:
  … => (load "core.el") => (macroexpand-all …) => (macroexpand (eval-and-compile …)) => (load "init.el") => (load "core.el")
Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
Warning: Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle:
  … => (load "core.el") => (macroexpand-all …) => (macroexpand (eval-and-compile …)) => (load "init.el") => (load "core.el")
Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
Warning: Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle:
  … => (load "core.el") => (macroexpand-all …) => (macroexpand (eval-and-compile …)) => (load "init.el") => (load "core.el")
Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
Warning: Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle:
  … => (load "core.el") => (macroexpand-all …) => (macroexpand (eval-and-compile …)) => (load "init.el") => (load "core.el")
Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
Warning: Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle:
  … => (load "core.el") => (macroexpand-all …) => (macroexpand (eval-and-compile …)) => (load "init.el") => (load "core.el")
Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
Warning: Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle:
  … => (load "core.el") => (macroexpand-all …) => (macroexpand (eval-and-compile …)) => (load "init.el") => (load "core.el")
Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’
Makefile:93: recipe for target '.local/autoloads.el' failed
make: *** [.local/autoloads.el] Error 255

Odd, this only occurs if you have this line in ~/.doom.d/init.el:

(require 'core (concat user-emacs-directory "core/core"))

But it was removed from init.example.el in 0026f08e (~7 hours ago). Check to make sure that line is not present in ~/.doom.d/init.el, and delete it if it is.

liuxu:.doom.d$ cat init.el | grep "concat"
liuxu:.doom.d$ 

liuxu:.doom.d$ pwd
/home/liuxu/.doom.d
liuxu:.doom.d$ cat init.el 
;;; init.example.el -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-

(doom! :feature
       (popup            ; tame sudden yet inevitable temporary windows
        +all             ; catch all popups that start with an asterix
        +defaults)       ; default popup rules
      ;debugger          ; FIXME stepping through code, to help you add bugs
       eval              ; run code, run (also, repls)
       (evil +everywhere); come to the dark side, we have cookies
       file-templates    ; auto-snippets for empty files
       (lookup           ; helps you navigate your code and documentation
        +devdocs         ; ...on devdocs.io online
        +docsets)        ; ...or in Dash docsets locally
       services          ; TODO managing external services & code builders
       snippets          ; my elves. They type so I don't have to
       spellcheck        ; tasing you for misspelling mispelling
       syntax-checker    ; tasing you for every semicolon you forget
       version-control   ; remember, remember that commit in November
       workspaces        ; tab emulation, persistence & separate workspaces

       :completion
       company           ; the ultimate code completion backend
      ;helm              ; the *other* search engine for love and life
      ;ido               ; the other *other* search engine...
       ivy               ; a search engine for love and life

       :ui
       doom              ; what makes DOOM look the way it does
       doom-dashboard    ; a nifty splash screen for Emacs
       doom-modeline     ; a snazzy Atom-inspired mode-line
       doom-quit         ; DOOM quit-message prompts when you quit Emacs
       evil-goggles      ; display visual hints when editing in evil
       hl-todo           ; highlight TODO/FIXME/NOTE tags
       nav-flash         ; blink the current line after jumping
      ;posframe          ; use child frames where possible (Emacs 26+ only)
      ;tabbar            ; FIXME an (incomplete) tab bar for Emacs
      ;unicode           ; extended unicode support for various languages
       vi-tilde-fringe   ; fringe tildes to mark beyond EOB
       window-select     ; visually switch windows

       :tools
       dired             ; making dired pretty [functional]
       electric-indent   ; smarter, keyword-based electric-indent
       eshell            ; a consistent, cross-platform shell (WIP)
       gist              ; interacting with github gists
       imenu             ; an imenu sidebar and searchable code index
       impatient-mode    ; show off code over HTTP
      ;macos             ; MacOS-specific commands
       make              ; run make tasks from Emacs
      ;magit             ;
       neotree           ; a project drawer, like NERDTree for vim
       password-store    ; password manager for nerds
       pdf               ; pdf enhancements
      ;rgb               ; creating color strings
       rotate-text       ; cycle region at point between text candidates
       term              ; terminals in Emacs
       tmux              ; an API for interacting with tmux
       upload            ; map local to remote projects via ssh/ftp

       :lang
       assembly          ; assembly for fun or debugging
       cc                ; C/C++/Obj-C madness
       crystal           ; ruby at the speed of c
       clojure           ; java with a lisp
       csharp            ; unity, .NET, and mono shenanigans
       data              ; config/data formats
       elixir            ; erlang done right
       elm               ; care for a cup of TEA?
       emacs-lisp        ; drown in parentheses
       ess               ; emacs speaks statistics
       go                ; the hipster dialect
       (haskell +intero) ; a language that's lazier than I am
       hy                ; readability of scheme w/ speed of python
       (java +meghanada) ; the poster child for carpal tunnel syndrome
       javascript        ; all(hope(abandon(ye(who(enter(here))))))
       julia             ; a better, faster MATLAB
       latex             ; writing papers in Emacs has never been so fun
       ledger            ; an accounting system in Emacs
       lua               ; one-based indices? one-based indices
       markdown          ; writing docs for people to ignore
       nix               ; I hereby declare "nix geht mehr!"
       ocaml             ; an objective camel
       (org              ; organize your plain life in plain text
        +attach          ; custom attachment system
        +babel           ; running code in org
        +capture         ; org-capture in and outside of Emacs
        +export          ; Exporting org to whatever you want
        +present         ; Emacs for presentations
        +publish)        ; Emacs+Org as a static site generator
       perl              ; write code no one else can comprehend
       php               ; perl's insecure younger brother
       plantuml          ; diagrams for confusing people more
       purescript        ; javascript, but functional
       python            ; beautiful is better than ugly
       rest              ; Emacs as a REST client
       ruby              ; 1.step do {|i| p "Ruby is #{i.even? ? 'love' : 'life'}"}
       rust              ; Fe2O3.unwrap().unwrap().unwrap().unwrap()
       scala             ; java, but good
       sh                ; she sells (ba|z)sh shells on the C xor
       swift             ; who asked for emoji variables?
       typescript        ; javascript, but better
       web               ; the tubes

       ;; Applications are complex and opinionated modules that transform Emacs
       ;; toward a specific purpose. They may have additional dependencies and
       ;; should be loaded late.
       :app
      ;(email +gmail)    ; emacs as an email client
      ;irc               ; how neckbeards socialize
      ;(rss +org)        ; emacs as an RSS reader
      ;twitter           ; twitter client https://twitter.com/vnought
      ;(write            ; emacs as a word processor (latex + org + markdown)
      ; +wordnut         ; wordnet (wn) search
      ; +langtool)       ; a proofreader (grammar/style check) for Emacs

       :config
       ;; The default module set reasonable defaults for Emacs. It also provides
       ;; a Spacemacs-inspired keybinding scheme, a custom yasnippet library,
       ;; and additional ex commands for evil-mode. Use it as a reference for
       ;; your own modules.
       (default +bindings +snippets +evil-commands))

liuxu:.doom.d$ 

Is ~/.doom.d empty besides the init.el?

Have you byte-compiled ~/.emacs.d (with make compile)?

```bash
liuxu:~$ rm -rf .emacs.d/ .doom.d/
liuxu:~$ mkdir .doom.d
liuxu:~$ git clone -b develop https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs ~/.emacs.d
Cloning into '/home/liuxu/.emacs.d'...
remote: Counting objects: 33309, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (153/153), done.
remote: Total 33309 (delta 145), reused 190 (delta 111), pack-reused 33044
Receiving objects: 100% (33309/33309), 9.38 MiB | 1.97 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (23013/23013), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
liuxu:~$ cd .emacs.d/
liuxu:.emacs.d$ cp init.example.el ~/.doom.d/init.el
liuxu:.emacs.d$ git branch -av

• develop 0e12761 Update README with new make quickstart workflow
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/develop 0e12761 Update README with new make quickstart workflow
  remotes/origin/master 5dacbb7 Merge branch 'develop'
  remotes/origin/screenshots e2956e5 Add screenshots
  liuxu:.emacs.d$ ls -al ~/.doom.d/
  total 16
  drwxrwxr-x 2 liuxu liuxu 4096 4月 4 18:30 .
  drwxr-xr-x 46 liuxu liuxu 4096 4月 4 18:30 ..
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 liuxu liuxu 6521 4月 4 18:30 init.el
  liuxu:.emacs.d$ make install
  Installing core packages
  Importing package-keyring.gpg...
  Importing package-keyring.gpg...done
  Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:443
  Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:443
  Contacting host: melpa.org:443
  Contacting host: melpa.org:443
  Contacting host: orgmode.org:443
  Package refresh done
  ✓ Installed persistent-soft
  ✓ Installed use-package
  ✓ Installed quelpa
  ✓ Installed async
  Installing core packages...done
  Warning: Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle:
  … => (load "core.el") => (macroexpand-all …) => (macroexpand (eval-and-compile …)) => (load "init.el") => (load "core.el")
  Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
  Warning: Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle:
  … => (load "core.el") => (macroexpand-all …) => (macroexpand (eval-and-compile …)) => (load "init.el") => (load "core.el")
  Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
  Warning: Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle:
  … => (load "core.el") => (macroexpand-all …) => (macroexpand (eval-and-compile …)) => (load "init.el") => (load "core.el")
  Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
  Warning: Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle:
  … => (load "core.el") => (macroexpand-all …) => (macroexpand (eval-and-compile …)) => (load "init.el") => (load "core.el")
  Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
  Warning: Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle:
  … => (load "core.el") => (macroexpand-all …) => (macroexpand (eval-and-compile …)) => (load "init.el") => (load "core.el")
  Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
  Warning: Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle:
  … => (load "core.el") => (macroexpand-all …) => (macroexpand (eval-and-compile …)) => (load "init.el") => (load "core.el")
  Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
  Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
  Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")
  Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’
  Makefile:97: recipe for target '.local/autoloads.el' failed
  make: * [.local/autoloads.el] Error 255
  liuxu:.emacs.d$
  `

I cannot reproduce this. Do you have a ~/.config/doom folder, by chance? In which you might possibly have an init.el that calls (require 'core (concat user-emacs-directory "core/core"))?

~/.config/doom is used instead of ~/.doom.d if it is detected.

Haha,I install success.I am Ubuntu16.04,all configs in ~/.config/.Thank you ~

now in emacs 25.3.3 with Arch Linux x86_64 . in doom-emacs master still has the problem :
FATAL ERROR: (error) Need package ‘org-20150330’, but only 9.1.9 is available
FATAL ERROR: (error) Package ‘centered-window-mode-’ is unavailable
FATAL ERROR: (error) Package ‘ob-redis-’ is unavailable

and in develop branch

do not have the cool UI ,nothing .but it says "Doom loaded 123 packages across 0 modules in 0.585s"

@SeAL80s did you run make before starting emacs on the develop branch?

@mbark In the Master branch 'make install ' will produce

"FATAL ERROR: (error) Need package ‘org-20150330’, but only 9.1.9 is available"

git checkout develop then make (or make install ) It appears like above , no color UI and It's just 44 packages installed . In the Master Branch It's 300+ .

And ,If 'make install ' in master branch ,then checkout develop , 'make' will remove 250+ packages ,remain 44 packages.

If git clone doom-emacs , then cp init.example.el init.el (in develop branch ,there is a init.el already) , 'make install ' will produce Error 'Symbol’s function definition is void: doom!'

@SeAL80s The correct flow is

1. clone doom-emacs
2. cd ~/.emacs.d && git checkout develop
3. mkdir ~/.doom.d && cp ~/.emacs.d/init.example.el ~/.doom.d/init.el
4. cd ~/.emacs.d && make install

@fuxialexander I just found myself . Turn out ,the develop branch require ~/.doom.d/ and copy init.example.el to ~/.doom.d/ . So i did just like you wtire above ,and it works .(It's not in the README, or website ,it's in develop branch's init.example.el )

@SeAL80s @hlissner has mentioned in some other issues that the docs will be updated and that it is part of the next release.

@hlissner In the develop branch there is a init.el in .emacs.d calls (require 'core (concat user-emacs-directory "core/core")) which cause @liuxuzzz problem . My solution is in the master branch ,

mkdir ~/.doom.d ,cp init.example.el ~/.doom.d/init.el

then

git checkout develop

switch to develop branch

mv ~/.doom.d/init.el ~/.emacs.d/init.el

to overwrite the default init.el in develop branch ,which contain only one line

(require 'core (concat user-emacs-directory "core/core"))

Then "make instal"l works perfectly .

@SeAL80s The order is incorrect. Please do not use init.example.el from the master branch if you intend to use develop. This will cause problems. I highly recommend you do _not_ modify or replace ~/.emacs.d/init.el unless you understand the repercussions of doing so.

• ~/.emacs.d/init.el should _only_ contain (require 'core (concat user-emacs-directory "core/core"))
• ~/.doom.d/init.el should not contain (require 'core (concat user-emacs-directory "core/core"))

This is all you need to install Doom:

On master

git clone https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs ~/.emacs.d
cd ~/.emacs.d
cp init.example.el init.el
make install

On develop (recommended)

git clone https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs ~/.emacs.d
cd ~/.emacs.d
mkdir ~/.doom.d
cp init.example.el ~/.doom.d/init.el
make install

@hlissner But Your order doesn't for me . On master there is this error

FATAL ERROR: (error) Need package ‘org-20150330’, but only 9.1.9 is available

and On develop cp init.example.el init.el , then 'make install' will show ":doom is invalid " .
The order i mentioned works for me . I don't know why , but 'make install' will sucess .
By the way ,on develop there is already has a init.el ,if cp init.example.el ~/.doom.d/init.el will show

Warning: Eager macro-expansion skipped due to cycle:
… => (load "core.el") => (macroexpand-all …) => (macroexpand (eval-and-compile …)) => (load "init.el") => (load "core.el")
Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Recursive ‘require’ for feature ‘core’")

On master there is this error...

Yes, you are correct. I forget, master is currently broken.

On develop cp init.example.el init.el, then...

cp init.example.el init.el is incorrect.

cp ~/.emacs.d/init.example.el ~/.doom.d/init.el is correct.

On develop there is already has a init.el

This is correct. It should not be modified. ~/.emacs.d/init.el should only contain:

(require 'core (concat user-emacs-directory "core/core"))

The above line must not be inside ~/.doom.d/init.el! Or you get that error.

As I said before, do cp ~/.emacs.d/init.example.el ~/.doom.d/init.el.

Hi @hlissner
I just made a fresh install of Emacs 26.1 but was getting errors when installing Doom, so I found this issue and followed the next steps:

git clone https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs ~/.emacs.d
cd ~/.emacs.d
git checkout develop
mkdir ~/.doom.d
cp init.example.el ~/.doom.d/init.el
make install

but I still get:

.emacs.d ) make install

Symbol's function definition is void: advice-add
make: *** [.local/autoloads.el] Error 255

Any advice?
Thanks.

@jameskolce Make sure that the emacs you have in your PATH is the correct one. If advice-add is undefined, that implies an earlier version of Emacs (24 or under) is running.

Run emacs --version in your shell to find out.

@hlissner Thanks! I found the problem: emacs --version was returning the right version (26.1) so I didn't know what could be the problem, but at the end it was indeed trying to use Emacs 22 as you mention, because I had made a command alias instead of a link. It's working now, thanks.

I'm having issues on develop in particular with emacs-snippets, and php-extras:

N82106:.emacs.d bward$ make install
Looking for packages to install...
2 packages will be installed:

+ emacs-snippets (QUELPA)
+ php-extras (QUELPA)

Proceed? (y or n) y
Installing php-extras
✕ ERROR ((wrong-type-argument arrayp nil))
Installing emacs-snippets
✕ ERROR ((wrong-type-argument arrayp nil))
Finished!

I used process

git clone https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs ~/.emacs.d
cd ~/.emacs.d
git checkout develop
mkdir ~/.doom.d
cp init.example.el ~/.doom.d/init.el
make install

@BenJWard I've been hunting for this bug for a while now, but still haven't come up with any leads. Would you be able to recreate the error with DEBUG=1 make install, then copy the resulting backtrace (as much of it as you can) into a pastebin to send to me?

@hlissner I've just tried that and it seems to hang in places wherever it says "entering debugger..."

Extracting expand-region-20171217.2125/ruby-mode-expansions.el
Extracting expand-region-20171217.2125/expand-region-custom.el
Extracting expand-region-20171217.2125/latex-mode-expansions.el
Extracting expand-region-20171217.2125/jsp-expansions.el
Extracting expand-region-20171217.2125/js-mode-expansions.el
Extracting expand-region-20171217.2125/expand-region-core.el
Extracting expand-region-20171217.2125/text-mode-expansions.el
Extracting expand-region-20171217.2125/python-el-expansions.el
Extracting expand-region-20171217.2125/the-org-mode-expansions.el
Entering debugger...

I see that exact same hang on a fresh install from develop today.

I'll close this, since the original issue has been resolved.

@tidux @BenJWard Could you create a new issue for the hang? Please include your M-x doom/info.