From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: old bootstrap error emerges again Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:43:28 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8764mcrmjz.fsf@emacsfans.org> <87fylfptxa.fsf@emacsfans.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143504298 14150 80.91.229.2 (28 Mar 2006 00:04:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 28 02:04:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FO1hd-0004RY-Ph for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:04:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FO1hd-0005uf-D6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:04:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FNxcj-0002SP-Ah for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:43:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FNxch-0002Pt-C7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:43:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FNxch-0002Pc-3i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:43:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FNxeD-0007bI-7R; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-21-112.inter.net.il [80.230.21.112]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DVP20011 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:43:25 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Jason Rumney In-reply-to: (message from Jason Rumney on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:41:40 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52129 Archived-At: > From: Jason Rumney > Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:41:40 +0000 > Cc: eliz@gnu.org > > Zhang Wei writes: > > > "./oo-spd/i386/temacs.exe" -batch -l loadup bootstrap > > >From loadup.el > > (message "Finding pointers to doc strings...") > (if (or (equal (nth 3 command-line-args) "dump") > (equal (nth 4 command-line-args) "dump")) > (let ((name emacs-version)) > .... > ) > (condition-case nil > (Snarf-documentation "DOC") > (error nil))) > > This could be the reason the emacs used for bootstrapping uses DOC for > its docfile, as it is dumped using "bootstrap", not "dump". Yes, that's expected. > The errors seem to be coming from explicit calls to `documentation' in > the url-handlers-create-wrapper macro in url-handlers.el The problem is, on my system (and on anyone else's who succeeds to bootstrap), Fdocumentation returns nil without ever calling get_doc_string (which is the function that errors out for the OP). The question is, why the difference.