Re: Build problem and problem with region in 21.5 under Cygwin.

--- "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote: Stephen, The build problem went away when I checked out the source again using the tag 'r21-5-13', and running "cvs diff -r r21-5-13" as you suggested indicates that I do now have a valid source tree. However, I still have the runtime problem with the mark. I've tried renaming my $HOME/.emacs file (I've not converted to $HOME/.xemacs/init.el) to eliminate any possibility that something there is causing the problem, but the behavior is identical. Any time I try to set the mark with C-＠ or M-x set-mark-command, I get the message Symbol's value as variable is void: region with the following backtrace when debug-on-error is set to true Signaling: (void-variable region) zmacs-make-extent-for-region((#<marker at 395 in *scratch* 0x1028c8dc> . #<marker at 395 in *scratch* 0x1028c8c4>)) zmacs-activate-region() push-mark(nil nil t) set-mark-command(nil) call-interactively(set-mark-command) command-execute(set-mark-command t) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) If I try highlighting text with the mouse, the text highlights as I drag the mouse cursor, but I get the above message when I release the button, although the backtrace is a bit different: Signaling: (void-variable region) zmacs-make-extent-for-region((#<marker at 3 in *scratch* 0x1028c8dc> . #<marker at 1 in *scratch* 0x1028c8c4>)) zmacs-activate-region() default-mouse-track-maybe-own-selection((1 . 3) PRIMARY) default-mouse-track-drag-up-hook(#<buttonup-event button1up> 1) apply(default-mouse-track-drag-up-hook #<buttonup-event button1up> 1) mouse-track-run-hook(mouse-track-drag-up-hook nil #<buttonup-event button1up> 1) mouse-track(#<buttonup-event button1up>) call-interactively(mouse-track) recursive-edit() byte-code("..." [print-escape-newlines print-length debugger-buffer debugger-value standard-output debugger-args pop-to-buffer erase-buffer t 50 backtrace debugger-mode re-search-forward "\n[* ] debug(" 1 debugger-reenable (lambda debug) "Entering:\n" debug backtrace-debug 3 delete-char ?* 0 exit "Return value: " prin1 ?\n ?\ error "Signaling: " "Beginning evaluation of function call form:\n" nil message "" recursive-edit buffer-read-only inhibit-trace] 3) debug(error (void-variable region)) zmacs-make-extent-for-region((#<marker at 3 in *scratch* 0x1028c8dc> . #<marker at 1 in *scratch* 0x1028c8c4>)) zmacs-activate-region() push-mark(nil nil t) set-mark-command(nil) call-interactively(set-mark-command) command-execute(set-mark-command t) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) Just for completeness, here's the output of running "cvs diff -r r21-5-13" against my current source tree: cvs server: Diffing . cvs server: Diffing dynodump cvs server: Diffing dynodump/i386 cvs server: Diffing dynodump/ppc cvs server: Diffing dynodump/sparc cvs server: Diffing etc cvs server: Diffing etc/custom cvs server: Diffing etc/custom/example-themes cvs server: Diffing etc/eos cvs server: Diffing etc/idd cvs server: Diffing etc/photos cvs server: Diffing etc/sparcworks cvs server: Diffing etc/tests cvs server: Diffing etc/tests/external-widget cvs server: Diffing etc/toolbar cvs server: Diffing etc/unicode cvs server: Diffing etc/unicode/ibm cvs server: Diffing etc/unicode/mule-ucs cvs server: Diffing etc/unicode/other cvs server: Diffing etc/unicode/unicode-consortium cvs server: Diffing info cvs server: Diffing lib-src cvs server: Diffing lisp cvs server: Diffing lisp/mule cvs server: Diffing lisp/term cvs server: Diffing lock cvs server: Diffing lwlib cvs server: Diffing man cvs server: Diffing man/internals cvs server: Diffing man/lispref cvs server: Diffing man/new-users-guide cvs server: Diffing man/xemacs cvs server: Diffing modules cvs server: Diffing modules/base64 cvs server: Diffing modules/common cvs server: Diffing modules/ldap cvs server: Diffing modules/postgresql cvs server: cannot find modules/postgresql/configure cvs server: Diffing modules/sample cvs server: Diffing modules/sample/external cvs server: Diffing modules/sample/internal cvs server: Diffing modules/zlib cvs server: Diffing netinstall cvs server: Diffing nt cvs server: Diffing nt/installer cvs server: Diffing nt/installer/Wise cvs server: Diffing src cvs server: Diffing src/m cvs server: Diffing src/s cvs server: Diffing tests cvs server: Diffing tests/DLL cvs server: Diffing tests/Dnd cvs server: Diffing tests/automated cvs server: Diffing tests/gtk cvs server: Diffing tests/mule cvs server: Diffing tests/tooltalk Do you or anyone else have any suggestions? Thanks, --Rick