error loading nxhtml "void-variable web-vcs-investigate-ouput-mode"

[Ali Asad Lotia]

Mac OS 10.6.5

Emacs built from bzr trunk.
revno: 102735
revision-id: <email address hidden>

nxhtml branched from bzr launchpad
revno: 764 [merge]
revision-id: <email address hidden>

nxhtml loads fine before byte compilation. After byte compiling nxhtml, I get the following warning on emacs startup. nxhtml is loaded at startup by placing "(load (concat local-modules-dir "/nxhtml/autostart"))" in the init.el file. I have placed emacs output between <start emacs output> and <end emacs output> pseudo tags.

<start emacs output>
Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `/Users/lotia/.emacs.d/init.el':

Symbol's value as variable is void: web-vcs-investigate-output-mode

To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file. Start Emacs with
the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.
<end emacs output>

Starting Emacs with the "--debug-init" option yields the following output:
<start emacs output>
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable web-vcs-investigate-output-mode)
  byte-code("\302^HB^P\306\302!\204^O^@\307\302\310\"\210\311 \312\313\314\303!\210\n\211^S\314\3$
  require(web-vcs)
  (progn (require (quote web-vcs)))
  (eval-when-compile (require (quote web-vcs)))
  eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*<2>> nil "/Users/lotia/.emacs-stuff.d/nxhtml/nxhtml-loaddefs.el" nil $
  load-with-code-conversion("/Users/lotia/.emacs-stuff.d/nxhtml/nxhtml-loaddefs.el" "/Users/lotia/.$
  load("/Users/lotia/.emacs-stuff.d/nxhtml/nxhtml-loaddefs" nil)
  byte-code("^H\306W\203^V^@\307\310!\2040^@\311\312\313 \"!\210\2020^@\314\315!\314\316!^Z^$
  load("/Users/lotia/.emacs-stuff.d/nxhtml/autostart")
  eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "/Users/lotia/.emacs.d/init.el" nil t) ; Reading at buffer pos$
  load-with-code-conversion("/Users/lotia/.emacs.d/init.el" "/Users/lotia/.emacs.d/init.el" t t)
  load("/Users/lotia/.emacs.d/init" t t)
  #[nil "^H\205\264^@ \306=\203^Q^@\307^H\310Q\2027^@ \311=\2033^@\312\307\313\314#\203#^@\315\20$
  command-line()
  normal-top-level()
<end emacs output>

Please let me know if I can do anything to provide further assistance with this. I'm afraid my emacs lisp isn't good enough to already have provided a bugfix. But I may be able to provide more debug information with some guidance. I am not able to attach the output of M-x nxhtml-report-bug because that function isn't available due to the problem with loading nxhtml.

[lborgman (lennart-borgman)]

Hi Ali, thanks for the bug report. Could you please try again?

[Ali Asad Lotia (ali-asad-lotia)]

Dear lborgman,
I did a bzr pull and currently HEAD is at:
revno: 766 [merge]
revision-id: <email address hidden>

The byte compiled version of nxhtml loads fine, and there are no issues after byte compilation.
Thank you for the very quick response and for the fix.

Best,
Ali