From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:57:20 -0400 Message-ID: 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=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285989103 10246 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2010 03:11:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 03:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7127@debbugs.gnu.org To: Ken Brown Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 02 05:11:41 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 1P1sVg-0000T6-Ql for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 05:11:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35792 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1sVf-0004Hz-Ov for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:11:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53063 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1sVY-0004Ht-SH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:11:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1sVX-00076T-Sk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37506) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1sVX-00076P-QB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:11:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1sFZ-0004Tq-Pr; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:55:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris 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 02:55:01 +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=B7127.128598806417215 (code B ref 7127); Sat, 02 Oct 2010 02:55:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7127) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Oct 2010 02:54:24 +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 1P1sEx-0004Tc-Kd for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1sEv-0004TV-Fi for 7127@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:54:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1sHo-0007yJ-HD; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:57:20 -0400 X-Spook: Croatian ANDVT DRM CIDA Cohiba NASA Axis of Evil $400 X-Ran: ~q>eh\waf%LO4oaK7\8rSQ8%c}Y'[&b!nN~(o}j'+_TR\O)9,}(^]!_w.O>sZ:q[;*_;Ef X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <4CA69104.2080504@cornell.edu> (Ken Brown's message of "Fri\, 01 Oct 2010 21\:55\:16 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:55:01 -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:40630 Archived-At: 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.