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: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:14:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4CAF3565.60806@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 1286552568 19221 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2010 15:42:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:42:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7127-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 08 17:42:46 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 1P4F5m-0005x3-Ff for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:42:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58393 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P4F5i-0008CO-Tf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:42:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36237 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P4F5R-0007WI-U1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:42:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P4F54-0006in-7Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:41:59 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:58418) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P4F54-0006ih-5g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:41:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P4Ec6-0003LG-9k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:12:02 -0400 Resent-From: Ken Brown Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:12:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 7127 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 7127@debbugs.gnu.org, kbrown@cornell.edu Original-Received: via spool by 7127-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D7127.128655069012839 (code D ref 7127); Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:12:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7127-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Oct 2010 15:11:30 +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 1P4EbZ-0003L2-If for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:11:30 -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 1P4EbX-0003Kw-Az for 7127-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:11:28 -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 o98FEhMp003576 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 8 Oct 2010 11:14:43 -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: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:12:02 -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:40770 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. The mystery is solved by Eli's fix for bug#7167. It was a problem with the 23.2 tarball. If I delete src/buildobj.h, an out-of-tree build of 23.2 works again under Cygwin. Bug closed. Ken