From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: "7127@debbugs.gnu.org" <7127@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:30:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA4C953.5000103@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <q7eicbemct.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 9/30/2010 3:12 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Ken Brown wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> The first thing you could try is just a straight rebuild of the 23.2
> package (if you were testing a pre-built binary). I have a vague
> memory of some transient DOC related weirdness with emacs-snapshot
> packages that just seemed to go away on its own (?). So maybe it was
> just a build glitch.
Thanks for the suggestion. This is indeed a build glitch, but I don't
understand what's happening yet. If I unpack the emacs-23.2 source and
just build it (./configure && make) the bug is gone. But normally I
build emacs for Cygwin by using a packaging tool called cygport, which
(among other things) does an out-of-tree build. I don't know if this is
causing the problem. My build of emacs-23.1 also used cygport and
didn't exhibit the bug. So I have to keep investigating.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-30 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-28 23:03 bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error Aidan Kehoe
2010-09-28 23:27 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-29 7:17 ` Aidan Kehoe
2010-09-29 7:58 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-29 13:02 ` Ken Brown
2010-09-29 17:00 ` Ken Brown
2010-09-29 17:07 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-29 18:58 ` Ken Brown
2010-09-30 0:35 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-30 2:15 ` Ken Brown
2010-09-30 7:12 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-30 17:30 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2010-10-01 14:00 ` Ken Brown
2010-10-01 18:33 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-02 1:55 ` Ken Brown
2010-10-02 2:57 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-02 13:57 ` Ken Brown
2010-10-02 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-02 15:47 ` Ken Brown
2010-10-08 15:14 ` Ken Brown
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