Re: invalid byte code

Paul> I have reported this bug 5-6 times. AFAIK this doesn't happen to anyone else. It's extremely hard to fix a bug that cannot be replicated. There's only one person I know of who could fix this easily: you. Paul> XEmacs 21.4.6 \"Common Lisp (Windows [1])\" configured for `i586-pc-win32'. Paul> Load-Path Lisp Shadows: Paul> ---------------------- Paul> (e:\programs\xemacs\XEmacs-21.4.3\lisp\x-win-xfree86 Paul> e:\programs\xemacs\XEmacs-21.4.6\lisp\x-win-xfree86 yada yada yada ... It looks like your XEmacs 21.4.6 is using stuff byte-compiled for 21.4.3. This should work, but it's not a good thing to be happening. I don't understand why this is happening. The two versions should be able to coexist without tromping on each others' toes. Do you have any XEmacs-related environment variables set, in particular EMACSLOADPATH or EMACSPACKAGEPATH? Or maybe it's something in the Windows registry (which I'm learning to loathe). Paul> e:\programs\xemacs\XEmacs-21.4.3\lisp\lisp Paul> e:\programs\xemacs\site-version\lisp\lisp And what's this "site-version" stuff? I've never heard of it before, but you seem to have quite a lot of it. Again, a default install should _not_ find that site-version stuff AFAIK (but I don't work with Windows much). Paul> e:\programs\xemacs\site-version\lisp\eval-reg Paul> e:\programs\xemacs\xemacs-packages\lisp\edebug\eval-reg And it's shadowing the optional packages, too. Paul> Invalid byte code: "variable reference to constant symbol :prefix" Paul> Loading advice... And it looks like something in your init file is doing something evil. Loading advice the very first thing is not reassuring. I sorta suspect that has something to do with it. (Unless your system is just hosed; you're the guy who reported the gdi32.dll problem, too, aren't you?) Can you replicate with "xemacs -vanilla"? With a clean environment? -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.