Re: [External] : emacs-28 windows binaries available from alpha

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> CC: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>,
>         "H. Dieter Wilhelm"
>       <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>,
>         Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2022 06:57:57 +0000
> 
> And if I just do `M-x load-library synonyms.elc'
> then I get the error message in the echo area:
> 
>  Symbol's value as variable is void: mode
> 
> This is the use of `define-derived-mode' in
> synonyms.el (I've elided the doc-string text):
> 
> (define-derived-mode synonyms-mode text-mode "Synonyms"
>   "..."
>   (modify-syntax-entry ?- "w" synonyms-mode-syntax-table)
>   (modify-syntax-entry ?1 "w" synonyms-mode-syntax-table)
>   (modify-syntax-entry ?2 "w" synonyms-mode-syntax-table)
>   (modify-syntax-entry ?3 "w" synonyms-mode-syntax-table)
>   (modify-syntax-entry ?9 "w" synonyms-mode-syntax-table)
>   (modify-syntax-entry ?0 "w" synonyms-mode-syntax-table)
>   (modify-syntax-entry ?$ "w" synonyms-mode-syntax-table)
>   (buffer-disable-undo)
>   (setq fill-column  synonyms-fill-column)
>   (set (make-local-variable 'transient-mark-mode) t))
> 
> I don't feel like digging deeper into this.
> Hopefully someone knowledgeable can figure out
> what the problem is from my description here.

The only way forward is for you to prepare a complete reproduction
recipe, starting from "emacs -Q", then someone could look into what is
going on there.

> I'll just mention that this is the first time I've
> not been able to just immediately use a Windows
> binary for Emacs.  Never had an error raised before
> when just loading my init file.  And that's still
> the case, for all releases starting with Emacs 20.

This is a pretest.  Problems are quite possible and expected.  That's
why we have pretests in the first place.