From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16177 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill White Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus 5.6.38 and Emacs 20.3 Date: 22 Aug 1998 12:10:45 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155088 26243 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:04:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:04:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA05116 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:11:56 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09416 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 13:13:22 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAK17641; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 12:13:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 22 Aug 1998 12:11:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA17628 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 12:10:55 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from dragonfly.wolfram.com (root@dragonfly.wolfram.com [140.177.10.12]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA07443 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 13:10:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from wolfram.com (billw@banshee.wolfram.com [140.177.4.4]) by dragonfly.wolfram.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24431; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 12:10:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from billw@localhost) by wolfram.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA03962; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 12:10:46 -0500 Original-To: François Pinard In-Reply-To: François Pinard's message of "22 Aug 1998 08:44:01 -0400" Original-Lines: 34 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.38/Emacs 20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16177 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16177 Lars came up with the right answer. I had just upgraded to Emacs 20.3 (my first emacs upgrade) and just copied all the .el and .elc files from 20.2's site-lisp dir to 20.3's. All I had to do was delete the .elc files & byte-compile with 20.3. Problem solved! Cheers - bw -- Bill White billw@wolfram.com http://www.wolfram.com/~billw François Pinard writes: > Bill White writes: > > > Attempt to set a constant symbol: :-pos > > > Is there something more I could report to help debug things? > > Grrr! I'm sure I've seen this problem before, a while ago in fact, and > I remember that the mere solution was to rename a few variables all over > some Emacs LISP source. The sad thing is that I do not remember which, > nor why. It was something like changing `...:-pos' to `...:-position', > maybe. I likely reported the problem, whatever it was. The trick Lars > gave you, that is "(setq debug-on-error t)", should help you identifying > where the problem occurred, at least. > > -- > François Pinard mailto:pinard@iro.umontreal.ca > Join the free Translation Project! http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard