From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#55492: 29.0.50; apropos-documentation with universal argument shows an error Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 19:10:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87tu9ng3yg.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28516"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 55492@debbugs.gnu.org, Daniel =?UTF-8?Q?Mart=C3=ADn?= To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 18 01:11:26 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nr6Ld-0007Dc-GZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=PNjQoty0QGivqJSNDdv4AIhlLyHr6CLYeOw5XV/6qMrCdX09OMWb2AoLxJ4Cbf04q UvFnKKLV5R5uiSmQ3W2P3kblvtDKnrNMv4cnEUDO3OGKhGIPXmJlrtOJpKk3aIr0Xd +z2sNVw9VzNCxJUz28QUV9bAQkwTPlpK+lsxWvURvu/GgmSz+BH2F3VxZSuALiToVt gAfE0WGqYH7vV3fgpkfXaCeIDeeHpQXieLEgpPzg8DgCEdxf1DIJRW7Rf0mLpPv0Um v0oEs/i52R5wgiXhf8XLDre+dDAKr1GOPhXJpkI4IurIJFLFPU/i3eeWDIHTnrsmpS 5q/+OtaQU1ujg== Original-Received: from pastel (unknown [45.72.221.51]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5A271120E8A; Tue, 17 May 2022 19:10:05 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87tu9ng3yg.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 18 May 2022 01:00:07 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:232507 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-05-18 01:00:07] wrote: > Daniel Mart=EDn via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of > text editors" writes: >> emacs -Q >> C-u C-h d window RET >> >> Actual result: >> >> An error is shown: >> >> apropos-documentation-check-elc-file: Opening input file: No such file >> or directory, /simple.elc > > I see the same if I start Emacs now, and the root cause is > > (apropos-safe-documentation 'kill-current-buffer) > > which again is because of this > > (aref (symbol-function 'kill-current-buffer) 4) > =3D> ("simple.elc" . 202401) What is the value of `lisp-directory` when you get that error? What is the actual "" printed above? Where should Emacs find the `simple.elc` file instead? > Now, in my Emacs that's been running for a few hours, I instead get: > > (aref (symbol-function 'kill-current-buffer) 4) > =3D> ("/home/larsi/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/simple.elc" . 202401) I suspect that this is because the `simple.elc` was reloaded for some reason, which happens to hide the problem. > I think Stefan changed the format of byte compiled functions a while > ago? Or do I misremember? Anyway, added to the CCs. Not really, no, but the docstrings of preloaded packages (like `simple.el`) used to be (stored in and) fetched from `etc/DOC` and is now fetched from the elc files instead. The relevant change (and hence likely culprit here) is 59732a83c8875c8986d2221600d559a24d8309cc Stefan