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: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:58:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4CA38C71.3040906@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> 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 1285787498 9032 80.91.229.12 (29 Sep 2010 19:11:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:11:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "7127@debbugs.gnu.org" <7127@debbugs.gnu.org> To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 29 21:11:37 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 1P123y-0001UP-Hd for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:11:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37135 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P123x-0000ue-U8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:11:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57681 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P123p-0000uX-6H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:11:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P123o-0005pm-93 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:42454) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P123o-0005ph-3m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:11:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P11ow-0007r4-UT; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:56:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Ken Brown Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:56:02 +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=B7127.128578656130191 (code B ref 7127); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:56:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7127) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Sep 2010 18:56:01 +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 1P11ou-0007qr-Tf for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:56:01 -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 1P11os-0007qm-D2 for 7127@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:55:59 -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 o8TIwpDW000941 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:58:51 -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: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:56:02 -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:40553 Archived-At: On 9/29/2010 1:07 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > Ken Brown wrote: > >> This turns out not to be so easy. That patch is intertwined with a >> lot of changes to the build system that were made only in the trunk, >> so there's no way to quickly test whether that patch is relevant to >> the present bug. > > Would this have the same effect? > > *** src/s/cygwin.h 2010-01-13 08:35:10 +0000 > --- src/s/cygwin.h 2010-09-29 17:04:58 +0000 > *************** > *** 104,109 **** > --- 104,110 ---- > #define PENDING_OUTPUT_COUNT(FILE) ((FILE)->_p - (FILE)->_bf._base) > #define SYSV_SYSTEM_DIR 1 > #define UNEXEC unexcw.o > + #define START_FILES pre-crt0.o > #define POSIX_SIGNALS 1 > #define LINKER $(CC) That's the first thing I tried, but emacs wouldn't compile because of an undefined reference in src/sysdep.c. So I patched that. Then emacs wouldn't compile because of an undefined reference in src/vm-limit.c. That's when I decided that it might not be worth the trouble to put more time into this. I'd also be a little worried about what side-effects might result from selectively backporting changes to the build system. Ken