GNU bug report logs - #7127
DOC problem with out-of-tree builds; maybe Cygwin specific

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea <at> parhasard.net>

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.2

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 7127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: kbrown <at> cornell.edu
Subject: bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:58:19 -0400

This may be Cygwin-specific?

Aidan Kehoe wrote:

> (symbol-function 'help-for-help-internal) (h-f-h-i being what help
> eventually resolves to) gives me a compiled function with a nil
> documentation slot; help.elc has (defalias 'help-for-help-internal
> ...) with a compiled function and what seems to be the correct lazy
> doc reference. The DOC file seems correct, with an entry
> Fhelp-for-help-internal Help command.
>
> But (documentation #'custom-declare-variable-early) and (documentation
> #'when) both give nil for me, and the same seems to be true for all the
> dumped compiled functions with docstrings. I don’t know why that is, and I
> don’t especially care to debug it right now, but this binary is what Cygwin
> installed, I’m certain I’m not the only one affected.
>
>  > > In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, GTK+ Version 2.18.6)
>  > >  of 2010-05-08 on laptop
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