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: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:57:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4CA73A2D.7030202@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> <4CA4C953.5000103@cornell.edu> <4CA5E97F.9060308@cornell.edu> <1aaamxoj98.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4CA69104.2080504@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 1286028762 10292 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2010 14:12:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 14:12:42 +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 Sat Oct 02 16:12:34 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 1P22pC-0005fQ-OS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:12:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53455 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P22pC-0000gY-7G for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:12:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40701 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P22oJ-0000DG-3M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:11:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P22oH-0001wz-Ii for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:11:34 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:42397) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P22oH-0001wu-G1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:11:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P22YH-00011c-QO; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:55:01 -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: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:55:01 +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=B7127.12860276643932 (code B ref 7127); Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:55:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7127) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Oct 2010 13:54:24 +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 1P22Xf-00011N-GA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:54:23 -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 1P22Xd-00011F-3V for 7127@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:54:22 -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 o92DvKnL019278; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 09:57:21 -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 101002-0, 10/02/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:55:01 -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:40637 Archived-At: On 10/1/2010 10:57 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > Ken Brown wrote: > >> That's too bad. I was hoping this would become someone else's problem. > > Maybe it's some temporary thing that isn't specific to Cygwin, but > doesn't happen every time. Like I said, I have a vague memory of > something similar for the emacs-snapshot package. I think it was: > > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=2590 > > It's hard to see what could have changed between 23.1 and 23.2 to > cause this, nor why it should go away in 24.1. > >> In any case, it's easy enough to work around it. I just >> won't do an out-of-tree build for my future releases of emacs-23 for >> Cygwin. (The problem doesn't exist in emacs-24.) And I'll go ahead >> and do a rebuild of 23.2 for the Cygwin distribution within the next >> few days. > > Great, thank you. Before I upload the new build, I want to make sure the problem really is fixed. M-x help works fine, but then I tried some of the other things that the OP mentioned, and I got the following results: (symbol-function 'help-for-help-internal) #[nil "\306\307\310!! \203\311\312\"\210\313\314!\315  \316 ;\317\211<=\317\211>?\320\321 \"\203<\322\323\324 \325\326O!\327\211 $\330\216\317 @\241\210\331 \332\333#\210\331 \334\335A\336\"#\210 \203| B\337\317!)>\335C>\"\203s\335C>\">>\325H?\202\340??\340=\204\226?D=\204\226?E>\203$\341 <\342\343!\210\344\345!\203\267\346\347 !;=\204\267\346\347 !=\317<\317F\327G\350 \210 c\210) \351 \210 )eb\210?\352ED\353B\">\204\354?\242\354=\204\354>\355\232\203$\317\356\357\217\210\327 BH\337\360\361\362d!\203\363\202\364\"!\211>\325H?*?\365=\203\317\366\335 >\"\317>#\210\202\317\311\363!\210?<\203<?IBI\317\211<\202u\335 >\"\211J\203r<\203T\367