From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:15:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4CA3F2A7.5070906@cornell.edu> References: <19618.29737.497771.713881@parhasard.net> <4i7hi5a1po.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <19618.59394.954066.964412@parhasard.net> <4CA338F1.1080402@cornell.edu> <4CA37093.6040304@cornell.edu> <4CA38C71.3040906@cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285814504 14025 80.91.229.12 (30 Sep 2010 02:41:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:41:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "7127@debbugs.gnu.org" <7127@debbugs.gnu.org> To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 04:41:41 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P195Z-0003Vg-C2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 04:41:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55998 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P195Y-0006g8-RR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:41:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55915 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P195R-0006ea-0z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:41:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P195P-00032W-No for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:41:32 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:49318) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P195P-00032Q-MP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:41:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P18dp-00035h-Kw; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:13:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Ken Brown Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:13:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7127 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7127-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7127.128581274611872 (code B ref 7127); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:13:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7127) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Sep 2010 02:12:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P18dF-00035R-LQ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:12:25 -0400 Original-Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu ([128.253.83.141] helo=authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P18dD-00035M-E0 for 7127@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cpe-67-249-196-94.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.196.94]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id o8U2FGlU024177; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:15:17 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100825 Thunderbird/3.1.3 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100929-1, 09/29/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:13:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:40564 Archived-At: On 9/29/2010 8:35 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > Ken Brown wrote: > >> That's the first thing I tried, but emacs wouldn't compile because of >> an undefined reference in src/sysdep.c. So I patched that. Then >> emacs wouldn't compile because of an undefined reference in >> src/vm-limit.c. That's when I decided that it might not be worth the >> trouble to put more time into this. I'd also be a little worried >> about what side-effects might result from selectively backporting >> changes to the build system. > > True; but if the documentation of many (?) functions is missing, that > seems like a problem serious enough to try to fix it for the future > Emacs 23.3. OK, I'll look harder. > Did 23.1 have the same problem? No, it doesn't. So that changes things completely. I guess I have to try a bisection to find the revision between 23.1 and 23.2 where the bug first appears. It may be a little while before I have time to do this. Ken