21.5 error with Help/Other/Current Installation Info

Vin Shelton acs at alumni.princeton.edu
Thu Oct 25 19:51:16 EDT 2007


In a recent 21.5 CVS XEmacs selecting Help/Other/Current Installation
Info from the menubar yields the following error: "No such coding
system".  I've attached my Installation file [even though it's
available in the backtrace :-) ].

Here's the lisp backtrace:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-argument "No such coding
system" automatic-conversion)
  decode-coding-region(1 2819 automatic-conversion)
  decode-coding-string("uname -a: Linux samwise 2.6.22-14-generic #1
SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686
GNU/Linux\n\n../../src/xemacs-21.5-2007-10-25/configure
'--prefix=/opt/xemacs-21.5-2007-10-25' '--with-cflags= -Os
-malign-double -pipe -ffast-math -march=pentium4 -fno-exceptions'
'--with-site-prefixes=/opt' '--with-infopath=/opt/info'
'--disable-dialogs' '--disable-widgets' '--disable-sound'
'--with-package-path=/opt/site-packages::/opt/xemacs-packages'
'--disable-pdump' '--enable-bignum=gmp' '--with-default-eol-detection'
'--with-optimization' '--disable-debug' '--disable-assertions'
'--disable-error-checking' '--with-cflags-warning='
'--with-cflags-optimization=' '--with-cflags-debugging='
'--disable-mule' 'CC=gcc'\n\n\nXEmacs 21.5-b28 \"fuki\"
(+CVS-20071025) configured for `i686-pc-linux'.\n\nCompilation
Environment and Installation Defaults:\n  Source code location:
      /opt/src/xemacs-21.5-2007-10-25\n  Installation prefix:
     /opt/xemacs-21.5-2007-10-25\n  Additional prefixes:
/opt\n  Operating system description file: `s/linux.h'\n  Machine
description file:          `m/intel386.h'\n  Compiler version:
         gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu
4.1.2-16ubuntu2)\n    - GCC specs file:                specs.\n    -
Compiler command:              gcc       -Os -malign-double -pipe
-ffast-math -march=pentium4 -fno-exceptions\n  libc version:
           GNU libc 2.6.1-1ubuntu9 (Debian)\n  Relocating allocator
for buffers:  no\n  GNU version of malloc:             yes\n    -
Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.\n  Linking with
`-z nocombreloc'.\n    - Consider configuring with
--enable-pdump.\n\nWindow System:\n  Compiling in support for the X
window system:\n    - X Windows headers location:                 \n
 - X Windows libraries location:               \n    - Handling
WM_COMMAND properly.\n  Using Lucid menubars.\n  Using Lucid
scrollbars.\n\nTTY:\n  Compiling in support for ncurses.\n\nImages:\n
Compiling in support for GIF  images (builtin).\n  Compiling in
support for XPM  images.\n  Compiling in support for PNG  images.\n
Compiling in support for JPEG images.\n  Compiling in support for TIFF
images.\n\nSound:\n\nDatabases:\n\nInternationalization:\n\nMail:\n
Compiling in support for \"file\" mail spool file locking
method.\n\nOther Features:\n  Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at
startup.\n  Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules.\n
Compiling in support for more number types using the GNU MP library.\n
 Using the new GC mark algorithms (KKCC).\n  WARNING:
---------------------------------------------------------\n  WARNING:
The new algorithms are experimental. They are enabled by\n  WARNING:
default for this release. Use `--disable-kkcc' to\n  WARNING: turn it
off.\n  WARNING:
---------------------------------------------------------\n\n"
automatic-conversion)
  #<compiled-function nil "...(15)" [Installation-string princ fboundp
decode-coding-string automatic-conversion] 4>()
  with-displaying-help-buffer(#<compiled-function nil "...(15)"
[Installation-string princ fboundp decode-coding-string
automatic-conversion] 4> "Installation")
  #<compiled-function nil "...(18)" [Installation-string boundp
with-displaying-help-buffer #<compiled-function nil "...(15)" ... 4>
"Installation" error "No Installation information available."] 3
1131125 nil>()
  call-interactively(describe-installation)


Regards,
  Vin

-- 
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