GNU bug report logs - #11634
24.1; Emacs fails to start, bidi_mirror_table is nil in bidi_initialize

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>

Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 21:39:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 11668, 11769

Found in version 24.1

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 11634 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11634 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11634: 24.1;
	Emacs fails to start, bidi_mirror_table is nil in bidi_initialize
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:53:10 +0200

>>>>> On Wed, 06 Jun 2012, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> My crystal ball says that this happened because Emacs 24 was run with
> EMACSLOADPATH set to point to Emacs 23 Lisp directory, or to a Lisp
> directory of a very old development version of Emacs 24, not to the
> Lisp directory of Emacs 24.1.

You crystal ball is working well. ;-) See the downstream bug at
<https://bugs.gentoo.org/419665>, especially comment 27.

I guess this bug can be closed then.


(--no-site-lisp should work though, even if Emacs was configured
with a non-default locallisppath. And bidi_initialize() could output
a better error message ...)
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