Dear Martin Mächler, System: Slackware Linux (version 14.0) CPUs: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @1.60GHz GNU Emacs 24.2.1
> Your emacs version 24.2 (2012) is relatively old. > The oldest version I have had access relatively quickly, is 24.3 > and if I type > C-h f defvar-local > there, I get a "positive" result. > What happens if you start emacs and ask for 'defvar-local' (as > I did above)? Describe function: defvar-local [No match] Running 'make' again after the patch was applied resulted in the following output. sh-4.2$ cd ess-16.10 sh-4.2$ make cd etc; make all make[1]: Entering directory `/home/eric/ess-16.10/etc' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/eric/ess-16.10/etc' cd lisp; make all make[1]: Entering directory `/home/eric/ess-16.10/lisp' emacs -batch -no-site-file -no-init-file -l ./ess-comp.el -f batch-byte-compile ess-custom.el loading 'ess-compat .. loading 'ess-custom .. loading 'ess .. loading 'ess-site .. [ess-site:] ess-lisp-directory = '/home/eric/ess-16.10/lisp' [ess-site:] require 'ess *ITSELF* ... [ess-site:] .. after requiring 'ess ... [ess-site:] Before requiring dialect 'ess-*-d .... [ess-site:] require 'ess-r-d ... [ess-r-d:] (require 'ess-s-l) [ess-s-l:] (def** ) only ... Cannot open load file: cl-lib make[1]: *** [ess-custom.elc] Error 255 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/eric/ess-16.10/lisp' make: *** [all] Error 2 sh-4.2$ Checking the emacs-lisp directory it appears that cl-lib.el was not included in version 24.2.1, though it's presence is noted in emacs-24.3. sh-4.2$ ls /usr/share/emacs/24.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl* /usr/share/emacs/24.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.el.gz /usr/share/emacs/24.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.elc /usr/share/emacs/24.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-indent.el.gz /usr/share/emacs/24.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-indent.elc /usr/share/emacs/24.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-loaddefs.el /usr/share/emacs/24.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-macs.el.gz /usr/share/emacs/24.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-macs.elc /usr/share/emacs/24.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-seq.el.gz /usr/share/emacs/24.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-seq.elc /usr/share/emacs/24.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-specs.el /usr/share/emacs/24.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl.el.gz /usr/share/emacs/24.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl.elc sh-4.2$ Sincerely, Eric Lindblad http://www.nurmi-labs.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 1/9/17, Martin Maechler < ... > wrote: Subject: Re: [ESS] ess-16.10 / Error 2 To: "Eric Lindblad" < ... > Cc: [email protected] Date: Monday, January 9, 2017, 12:14 PM ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
