The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gnu.emacs.bug as well.
"Peter Milliken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have downloaded the source of 21.3 and built it on a PC running Win2000 > and using the Cygwin distribution and following the INSTALL instructions in > emacs-21.3/nt/INSTALL (well, I ran "configure.bat --prefix=/c/emacs" and > then type "make install" as I have done for all other source distributions > :-)) > > The resulting binary falls over with a "Abort, Retry or Ignore" dialog when > any package referenced from my .emacs that attempts to "require" the cl.el > package. > > Just typing M-: (require 'cl) from within the Emacs session will bring up > the problem. > > I would imagine this is more likely a problem with my Cygwin setup than an > Emacs bug as I am sure that pretesting would have found this one very > quickly! > I used gcc 3.2.3(?) to build emacs from the source. I then tried using gcc > 2.95 but that fails with a source code/compile error part way through the > make, so I rebuilt with gcc 3.2.3 and tried again - same results. I veryfied emacs-21.2.95 this with the latest cygwin release and I could reproduce this on my system too. I was able to compile emacs too with the latest cygwin 'gcc version 2.95.3-10 (cygwin special)', but the problem still exists: cl pops up a "Abort, Retry or Ignore" Dialog. Compiler | State ----------------------------------+----------------- gcc 2.95.3-10 (cygwin special) | fails with cl.el gcc 3.2 20020927 (prerelease) | fails with cl.el gcc 2.95.3-6 (mingw special) | okay msvc | okay With the emacs head version I get by executing the "M-: (require 'cl)" lisp function the following backtrace: ,---- | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax ". in wrong context") | cl-random-time() | byte-code("...") | require(cl) | eval((require (quote cl))) | eval-expression((require (quote cl)) nil) | * call-interactively(eval-expression) `---- I am cc'ing this too to the cygwin mailing list, maybe someone has an idea what the problem caused. Harald -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/