From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Harald.Maier.BW@t-online.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: broken calc on 21.2.50 Date: 10 Feb 2002 11:36:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20020208.225946.91280394.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> <20020209.194136.01367103.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> Reply-To: Harald Maier NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1013338141 5301 195.204.10.66 (10 Feb 2002 10:49:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Feb 2002 10:49:01 GMT Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16ZrXY-0001NP-00 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 11:49:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16ZrNz-0006y8-00; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 05:39:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout09.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.84]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16ZrLn-0006qF-00 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 05:36:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fwd03.sul.t-online.de by mailout09.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16ZrLn-0006nc-03; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 11:36:51 +0100 Original-Received: from HESTIA (320041125923-0001@[217.230.84.71]) by fwd03.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16ZrLW-29iASWC; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 11:36:34 +0100 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20020209.194136.01367103.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> Original-Lines: 46 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1.90 X-Sender: 320041125923-0001@t-dialin.net Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:947 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:947 Tak Ota writes: > Sat, 09 Feb 2002 22:05:14 +0100: Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Jan=EDk) wrote: >=20 > > From: Tak Ota > > Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 22:59:46 -0800 (PST) > >=20 > > > In the latest CVS version (21.2.50) the calc package is broken. > > >=20 > > > M-x calc > > >=20 > > > ' a x ^ 2 + b x + c =3D 0 RET a S x RET > > >=20 > > > fails to solve the equation but produces an error message "Variabl= e is > > > void: 'while". > >=20 > > It works for me. Can you reproduce that with emacs -q? >=20 > That is strange. Yes emacs -q --no-site-file still shows exactly the > same result. >=20 > > Can you (set debug-on-error-t) before that error? >=20 > It does not help in this case. I tried it in vain even before you > asked. The error is reported from calc package and not from the emacs > lisp interpreter. I believe the cause of the error is determined by > the following location. >=20 > calc.el:2363: (calc-record-why "*Variable is void" (nth 1 err))))) >=20 > I suppose the issue is in the calc package however the following is > my environment which may not be the majority here. >=20 > -Tak >=20 > In GNU Emacs 21.2.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) > of 2002-02-09 on TAK_4100 > configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)' I tried this on a Windows environment compiled with gcc and get the same error as Tak. On a GNU/Linux system all works fine. This is maybe the reason why Colin an Pavel could not reproduce the problem. My system is GNU Emacs 21.2.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195): Harald _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel