Re: broken calc on 21.2.50

[Harald . Maier . BW]

Tak Ota <address@hidden> writes:

> Sat, 09 Feb 2002 22:05:14 +0100: address@hidden (Pavel Janík) wrote:
> 
> >    From: Tak Ota <address@hidden>
> >    Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 22:59:46 -0800 (PST)
> > 
> >    > In the latest CVS version (21.2.50) the calc package is broken.
> >    > 
> >    > M-x calc
> >    > 
> >    > ' a x ^ 2 + b x + c = 0 RET a S x RET
> >    > 
> >    > fails to solve the equation but produces an error message "Variable is
> >    > void: 'while".
> > 
> > It works for me. Can you reproduce that with emacs -q?
> 
> That is strange.  Yes emacs -q --no-site-file still shows exactly the
> same result.
> 
> > Can you (set debug-on-error-t) before that error?
> 
> It does not help in this case.  I tried it in vain even before you
> asked.  The error is reported from calc package and not from the emacs
> lisp interpreter.  I believe the cause of the error is determined by
> the following location.
> 
> calc.el:2363:            (calc-record-why "*Variable is void" (nth 1 err)))))
> 
> I suppose the issue is in the calc package however the following is
> my environment which may not be the majority here.
> 
> -Tak
> 
> In GNU Emacs 21.2.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195)
>  of 2002-02-09 on TAK_4100
> configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'

I tried this on a Windows environment compiled with gcc and get the
same error as Tak. On a GNU/Linux system all works fine. This is maybe
the reason why Colin an Pavel could not reproduce the problem.

My system is GNU Emacs 21.2.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195):

Harald