From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: maierh@myself.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Possible bug in Emacs 21.3 Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 08:19:54 +0100 Organization: T-Online Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Harald Maier NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048922530 21741 80.91.224.249 (29 Mar 2003 07:22:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 07:22:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 29 08:22:08 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18zAfI-0005eW-00 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 08:22:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18zAef-00063E-04 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:21:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18zAdk-0005fP-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:20:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18zAdW-0005YZ-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:20:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.10.13) id 18zAdV-0005Xj-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:20:18 -0500 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18zAdS-0007Nu-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:20:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18zAdC-0005QG-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:20:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.19]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18zAdB-0005Q9-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:19:58 -0500 Original-Received: from imh00.t-online.com by mailout06.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18zAd9-0008F4-00; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 08:19:55 +0100 Original-Received: from news.t-online.com by imh00.t-online.com with esmtp id 18zAd9-00079T-00; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 08:19:55 +0100 Original-Received: from news by news.t-online.com with local id 18zAd9-00040o-00; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 08:19:55 +0100 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu Original-Path: news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 53 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1048922395 01 15062 O8WuE-IbSyApXs 030329 07:19:55 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-ID: ZZZYh2ZHre+z-r9BK7EGVvJeQ0b2IuPeNTa3OUIpctbvTNNaYRAW8q User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2.93 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ojELAu7RitU8FlciLdEl4ki3np0= Original-cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org Original-cc: PeterM@resmed.com.au X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4662 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4662 "Peter Milliken" writes: > I have downloaded the source of 21.3 and built it on a PC running Win2000 > and using the Cygwin distribution and following the INSTALL instructions in > emacs-21.3/nt/INSTALL (well, I ran "configure.bat --prefix=/c/emacs" and > then type "make install" as I have done for all other source distributions > :-)) > > The resulting binary falls over with a "Abort, Retry or Ignore" dialog when > any package referenced from my .emacs that attempts to "require" the cl.el > package. > > Just typing M-: (require 'cl) from within the Emacs session will bring up > the problem. > > I would imagine this is more likely a problem with my Cygwin setup than an > Emacs bug as I am sure that pretesting would have found this one very > quickly! > I used gcc 3.2.3(?) to build emacs from the source. I then tried using gcc > 2.95 but that fails with a source code/compile error part way through the > make, so I rebuilt with gcc 3.2.3 and tried again - same results. I veryfied emacs-21.2.95 this with the latest cygwin release and I could reproduce this on my system too. I was able to compile emacs too with the latest cygwin 'gcc version 2.95.3-10 (cygwin special)', but the problem still exists: cl pops up a "Abort, Retry or Ignore" Dialog. Compiler | State ----------------------------------+----------------- gcc 2.95.3-10 (cygwin special) | fails with cl.el gcc 3.2 20020927 (prerelease) | fails with cl.el gcc 2.95.3-6 (mingw special) | okay msvc | okay With the emacs head version I get by executing the "M-: (require 'cl)" lisp function the following backtrace: ,---- | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax ". in wrong context") | cl-random-time() | byte-code("...") | require(cl) | eval((require (quote cl))) | eval-expression((require (quote cl)) nil) | * call-interactively(eval-expression) `---- I am cc'ing this too to the cygwin mailing list, maybe someone has an idea what the problem caused. Harald