Re: cannot start Gnus with idna.el

[Reiner Steib]

[ Sorry for the long delay. ]

On Sat, Mar 29 2008, NAKAJI Hiroyuki wrote:

> I noticed that recent CVS Emacs has a problem. For example, Gnus cannot
> start if idna.el is installed in the load-path directory.
>
> I found the problem under the combination of
>
> o FreeBSD/i386 8.0-CURRENT (Jan 29 2008)
> o Emacs 23.0.60 (CVS HEAD)
> o No Gnus 0.7 (CVS HEAD)
> o GNU Libidn 1.2
>
> I checked out the HEAD yesterday morning (JST), bootstrapped with gcc4
> and ran. And then, typed ( g n u s ) C-j in *scratch* buffer but nothing
> happened.
>
> Next, I evaled (setq debug-on-quit t) and saved the *Backtrace* which
> says the breakpoint is in idna.el:idna-to-ascii-response(). I attach the
> *Backtrace* file.
>
> The "while" in idna-to-ascii-response() seems infinite loop.
>
> (defun idna-to-ascii-response ()
>   (while (and (eq (process-status idna-to-ascii-process) 'run)
>               (null idna-to-ascii-response))
>     (accept-process-output idna-to-ascii-process 1))
>   idna-to-ascii-response)

Isn't this a bug in `idna.el' then?  Cc-ing Simon therefore.

> The idna-to-ascii-response is called from message.el and the failure
> itself occurs in
>
> (idna-to-ascii "räksmörgås")

Does it mean, that you can reproduce the problem when evaluating this
expression after starting "emacs -Q"?

> Of cource, after I removed idna.el from any directories of load-path,
> the error go away. (But there is another problem with Gnus which I'd
> like to report.)

Bye, Reiner.
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