Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-13 Thread Nicolai Guba
Mark == Mark W Eichin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.56/Emacs 19.34 This was precisely the problem. The EMACSLOADPATH was set in my user account, and I was trying to install in a window with su root, Mark Ahhh. I think it would be reasonable to explicitly unset this

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-12 Thread David R. Kohel
emacs-install emacs19 emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs19 emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs19 Well, do you have set EMACSLOADPATH on your root (or whatever are you using for instaling new packages)? Bilbo This was precisely the problem. The

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-12 Thread Mark W. Eichin
This was precisely the problem. The EMACSLOADPATH was set in my user account, and I was trying to install in a window with su root, Ahhh. I think it would be reasonable to explicitly unset this (and probably other variables) in the emacsen-common handler scripts... just as they should avoid

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-12 Thread Paul
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I had a similar problem. How I solved it was to remove ALL emacs packages including setup files. Re-install, being carefull to install EXACTLY ONE emacs package. You may also install EXACTLY ONE XEmacs package and get it to work. It appears that it is quite

Broken emacs

1998-09-10 Thread David R. Kohel
I found some references to this in the July and August archives, but has no fix been found for the emacs19 emacs20 packages? My apologies if there has been more recent discussion which I did not find in my search. As far as I could tell, some people got them to install by removing certain

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-10 Thread Mark W. Eichin
I'm not sure I've seen this reported before (but I'm way behind on list mail, and haven't checked the bug system for this specific thing) Cannot open load file: bytecomp Seems like the most likely problem, but things have to be very odd for that not to be found... what does dpkg -S bytecomp

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-10 Thread David R. Kohel
Seems like the most likely problem, but things have to be very odd for that not to be found... what does dpkg -S bytecomp show? it should at least have emacs19: /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/bytecomp.elc Yes, on a machine with broken emacs19: emacs19: /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/bytecomp.elc