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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 7127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "7127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <7127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:02:41 -0400
On 9/29/2010 3:58 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
>
> 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

I can reproduce the problem on my (Cygwin) system.  The bug occurs in 
Emacs 23.2 as well as a build from the current emacs-23 branch.  But the 
bug is gone in a build from the trunk.  I wonder if the patch in 
bug#6715 is what fixed it.  At a glance, I don't see anything else 
Cygwin-specific that might be relevant.  When I get a chance, I'll see 
if back-porting that patch to emacs-23 fixes the problem.

Ken




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