Cannot find help-for-help in help.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

Symptoms:

>From the shell's prompt:

  emacs -q
  C-h f help-for-help RET

Emacs displays the "*Help*" buffer with the following contents:

_________________________________________________________________________
help-for-help is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `help'.
It is bound to C-h ?, C-h <f1>, C-h <help>, C-h C-h, <help> ?, <help> <f1>, 
<help> <help>, <help> C-h.
(help-for-help)

Help command.
_________________________________________________________________________

Now switch to the "*Help*" buffer, go to the `help' link and press
RET.  Instead of displaying the definition of the help-for-help
function, Emacs dings and displays an error message in the echo area:

Cannot find definition of `help-for-help' in library `help'


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.31415 (i386-pc-msdosdjgpp)
 of 2005-01-29 on ZARETSKI
Distributor `GNU', version 1.0.0
configured using `configure msdos'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  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: t

Major mode: RMAIL

Minor modes in effect:
  auto-compression-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  global-cwarn-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  partial-completion-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  temp-buffer-resize-mode: t

Recent input:
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> l i s p / h e l p TAB . e TAB 
RET C-s L C-s C-s SPC C-s <down> <down> <down> <down> 
C-x 4 a D o c SPC f i x . <C-left> <C-left> <C-left> 
<C-left> <C-left> <left> C-SPC <down> M-w <M-end> C-x 
k RET C-x o C-x C-s C-x k RET C-x b RET <M-end> C-h 
f h e l p - f i TAB <backspace> TAB o TAB r TAB RET 
C-x o <down> <left> <left> <left> <left> RET <M-end> 
M-x r e p o r TAB RET

Recent messages:
Loading easy-mmode...done
Loading outline...done
View mode: type C-h for help, C-h m for commands, M-x View-quit to quit.
Mark saved where search started
Mark set
Saving file d:/gnu/new/emacs/lisp/ChangeLog...
Wrote d:/gnu/new/emacs/lisp/ChangeLog
Type M-x switch-to-buffer-other-window RET to restore the other window.  C-M-v 
to scroll the help.
find-function-search-for-symbol: Cannot find definition of `help-for-help' in 
library `help'
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