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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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Cc: "7127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <7127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:12:18 -0400

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.
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