`print' does not print

[Ralf Fassel]

In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (mips-sgi-irix6.5, X toolkit)
 of 2002-03-20 on jupiter.akutech-local.de
configured using `configure  --prefix=/software/emacs/21.2 
-exec-prefix=/software/emacs/21.2/IRIX-6 --with-pop --with-x-toolkit=athena'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: C
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

  % cat foo
  (print 'foo)
  % emacs-21.2 -batch -q -no-site-file -l foo
  %
does not print anything, whereas

  % emacs-19.34  -batch -q -no-site-file -l foo

  foo
  %
does the expected.

This breaks the installatiion of VM, which uses `print' to collect
autoload information to stdout.

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