On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Emacs from trunk is misbehaving.  Any idea what could be wrong?  Where
> should I specifically look?

I'm not sure.  But Emacs from trunk works well on my machine:

  In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.4)
   of 2013-11-10 on xfq-Inspiron-5437
  Bzr revision: 115052 eliz@gnu.org-20131109212410-46u1eolu78nfiiop
  Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11403000
  System Description: Ubuntu 13.10

> ,---- Install all Emacs dependencies
> |   apt-get install build-essential
> |   apt-get build-dep emacs
> `----
>
> ,----  Emacs from Bzr trunk
> | kjambunathan@debian-6:~/src/emacs/trunk/src$ ./emacs -q -mm
> `----

I used `apt-get build-dep emacs24', but `emacs24' is only on jessie and
sid now...

> ,---- Emacs from Debian Squeeze
> | kjambunathan@debian-6:~/src/emacs/trunk/src$ which emacs
> | /usr/bin/emacs
> |
> | kjambunathan@debian-6:~/src/emacs/trunk/src$ emacs --version
> | GNU Emacs 23.2.1
> | Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> | GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> | You may redistribute copies of Emacs
> | under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
> | For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
> |
> | kjambunathan@debian-6:~/src/emacs/trunk/src$ emacs -q -mm
> `----

I haven't tried this yet.

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