Description of Problem: An attempt to start emacs like that 'emacs -nw file.txt' results in a message: Invalid read syntax: ") or . in a vector" and 'file.txt' is not loaded. One ends in a *scratch* buffer. As far as I can see this complaint is coming from (byte-compile-file) or at least from some function called by it. After emacs started (find-file) called interactively works.
Alpha-specific - reassigning.
It is not really Alpha specific. The following three files are corrupted: - /usr/share/emacs/20.7/leim/leim-list.el - /usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc - /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/python-mode.elc 'leim-list.el' is _different_ than one from RH 7.2 for x86 and contains an obvious garbage like that: (register-input-method "hebrew" "Hebrew" 'quail-u11-22 Neil Booth <neilb> * cpplex.c (trigraph_l/hebrew") Replacing it and byte-recompiling two other files solves emacs startup troubles.
I should add that I do not know if other elc files are not shot. Those listed above were just those which I found trying to start emacs and to recompile buggered python-mode.elc
Trond, your ball. Fix it.
This was never a problem on x86. Alpha specific, not my problem.
(as in: Just rebuild the thing :) We were told not to do alpha specific bugs)
I've checked this out. There is nothing wrong with the package as it stands at this moment. emacs -nm <file> works out of the box and is not corrupted. I do not know if this was simply rebuilt befire I got to look at. Closing