kill-compilation failing when there are several compilation buffers

[Edward Welbourne]

I have several compile buffers running in parallel.
One of them completed.
In examining its errors, and fixing them, I concluded that I need to restart 
the others.
So I went to one of them and typed C-c C-k.
I got a minibuffer message <quote>
kill-compilation: The compilation process is not running
</quote> The comilation didn't stop.
Same applied to the compilation in buffer *compilation*.

Reading the help C-h C-k got me on C-c C-k, I see it's (kill-compilation)
which takes no parameter to indicate which compilation to kill, if there
happen to be several.  I had been under the impression that C-c C-k killed
the current buffer's compilation previously, but the documentation doesn't
say anything relating to that.

It would seem that kill-compilation either:
 * needs an optional argument, indicating *which* buffer's compilation
   to kill, defaulting to the current buffer; or
 * is meant to kill the one in current buffer already; and has a bug !


In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2007-07-07 on raven, modified by Debian
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  value of $LANG: en_GB.ISO-8859-15
  locale-coding-system: iso-8859-15
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Compilation

Minor modes in effect:
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Recent input:
s SPC = SPC f f l u s h ( m _ f p ) ; C-j i f SPC ( 
r e s SPC = = SPC 0 ) C-j C-p m _ c o m m i t SPC & 
& SPC C-x o C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-a C-SPC C-n M-w C-x 
o C-a C-y C-n C-e <return> # e n d i f C-p C-e C-x 
o C-r f d a t a s y n c C-x C-x C-x o r e s SPC = SPC 
f d a t a s y n c ( f i l e n o ( m _ f p ) ) ; C-n 
C-j i f SPC ( r e s SPC = = SPC 0 ) C-n TAB C-n C-M-b 
C-M-f C-x C-s C-x o C-x b <return> C-p C-r e r r o 
r C-r C-r C-r C-r C-r C-r C-r C-r C-r C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p M-< C-M-s ^ C C-s C-f 
C-SPC C-e M-w C-x C-f C-y <return> C-x v u y e s <return> 
C-x 3 C-x k <return> C-x o C-M-s C-s C-f C-SPC C-e 
M-w C-x C-f C-y <return> C-x v u y e s <return> C-x 
3 C-x k <return> C-x o C-M-s C-s C-f C-SPC C-e M-w 
C-x C-f C-y <return> C-x v u y e s <return> C-x 3 C-x 
k <return> C-x o C-M-s C-s M-> C-x o C-x k <return> 
C-x b * p e <tab> s e <tab> <return> C-c C-k C-c C-k 
<help-echo> C-x o C-x b * c o m <tab> <return> M-> 
C-c C-k C-h k C-c C-k C-x o C-x k <return> M-x r e 
p o r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Reverting /disk/home/eddy/work/desk/peregrine/modules/libssl/sslstat1.cpp...
Checking out 
/disk/home/eddy/work/desk/peregrine/modules/libssl/sslstat1.cpp...done
Reverting /disk/home/eddy/work/desk/peregrine/modules/libssl/sslstat1.cpp...done
Mark saved where search started
Mark set
kill-compilation: The compilation process is not running [2 times]
Mark set
kill-compilation: The compilation process is not running
Type C-x 4 C-o RET to restore the other window.  
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