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From: | Ken Brown |
Subject: | bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error |
Date: | Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:30:59 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 |
On 9/30/2010 3:12 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
Ken Brown wrote:Did 23.1 have the same problem?No, it doesn't. So that changes things completely. I guess I have to try a bisection to find the revision between 23.1 and 23.2 where the bug first appears. It may be a little while before I have time to do this.The first thing you could try is just a straight rebuild of the 23.2 package (if you were testing a pre-built binary). I have a vague memory of some transient DOC related weirdness with emacs-snapshot packages that just seemed to go away on its own (?). So maybe it was just a build glitch.
Thanks for the suggestion. This is indeed a build glitch, but I don't understand what's happening yet. If I unpack the emacs-23.2 source and just build it (./configure && make) the bug is gone. But normally I build emacs for Cygwin by using a packaging tool called cygport, which (among other things) does an out-of-tree build. I don't know if this is causing the problem. My build of emacs-23.1 also used cygport and didn't exhibit the bug. So I have to keep investigating.
Ken
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