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: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:30:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4CA4C953.5000103@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> <4CA3F2A7.5070906@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 1285868560 13603 80.91.229.12 (30 Sep 2010 17:42:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:42:40 +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 19:42:35 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 1P1N9A-0005aq-5Q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:42:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60700 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1N98-0006DS-Ar for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:42:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42175 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1N8v-00069g-Vb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:42:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1N8r-0006kD-Rx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46128) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1N8r-0006k4-LL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1MvK-0002JH-76; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:28:02 -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 17:28:02 +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=B7127.12858676788873 (code B ref 7127); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:28:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7127) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Sep 2010 17:27:58 +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 1P1MvG-0002J4-6R for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:27:58 -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 1P1MvE-0002Iz-Hp for 7127@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:27:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [128.84.234.191] (markov.math.cornell.edu [128.84.234.191]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id o8UHUqPI008729 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:30:52 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:28:02 -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:40580 Archived-At: 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