[ESS-bugs] ess-5.2.0 with NT based cygwin
A.J. Rossini
rossini at blindglobe.net
Fri May 14 17:31:33 CEST 2004
The problem should be solved with ESS 5.2.1 -- there was a function
ordering problem in the essa-sas.el file.
best,
-tony
Barrett E Kirwan <kirwan at MIT.EDU> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded to ess-5.2.0 from ess-5.1.24, and I ran into a snag. I'm not
> sure if this is a bug or not, but I thought I'd send an email and let those
> with the skills to understand what's going on decide.
>
> I have been using ess-5.1.24 with cygwin (I'm not sure how to determine what the
> version number is) and emacs 21.2 (the emacs that installs with cygwin). I
> used this on both a Windows 2000 machine and a Windows XP Pro machine. I
> installed it easy enough and have never had a problem with it. Yesterday I
> upgraded to ess-5.2.0, and I encountered a problem. I subsequently fixed the
> problem, but I thought I'd send a bug report just in case the problem is with
> ess-5.2.0 (the problem could very well be with me; I don't know Lisp & I'm more
> of a consumer of emacs than anything).
>
> Here's the debugger log from my initial installation of ess-5.2.0:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> string-match("/" nil)
> (let* ((temp-shell ...) (temp-char ...)) (while temp-char (setq temp-shell
> ...) (setq temp-char ...)) (cond (... "nohup nice +6") (t "nohup nice")))
> (if (equal ess-sas-submit-method (quote sh)) (let* (... ...) (while temp-char
> ... ...) (cond ... ...)) (if ess-microsoft-p "start"))
> eval((if (equal ess-sas-submit-method (quote sh)) (let* (... ...) (while
> temp-char ... ...) (cond ... ...)) (if ess-microsoft-p "start")))
> custom-initialize-reset(ess-sas-submit-pre-command (if (equal
> ess-sas-submit-method (quote sh)) (let* (... ...) (while temp-char ... ...)
> (cond ... ...)) (if ess-microsoft-p "start")))
> custom-declare-variable(ess-sas-submit-pre-command (if (equal
> ess-sas-submit-method (quote sh)) (let* (... ...) (while temp-char ... ...)
> (cond ... ...)) (if ess-microsoft-p "start")) "*Command-line statement to
> precede SAS invocation, e.g. start or nohup" :group ess-sas :type string)
> (defcustom ess-sas-submit-pre-command (if (equal ess-sas-submit-method ...)
> (let* ... ... ...) (if ess-microsoft-p "start")) "*Command-line statement to
> precede SAS invocation, e.g. start or nohup" :group (quote ess-sas) :type
> (quote string))
> eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*<5>> nil "essa-sas" nil t)
>
> load-with-code-conversion("/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess-5.2.0/lisp/essa-sas.el"
> "essa-sas" nil t)
> require(essa-sas)
> eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*<4>> nil "essl-sas" nil t)
>
> load-with-code-conversion("/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess-5.2.0/lisp/essl-sas.el"
> "essl-sas" nil t)
> require(essl-sas)
> eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*<3>> nil "essd-sas" nil t)
>
> load-with-code-conversion("/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess-5.2.0/lisp/essd-sas.el"
> "essd-sas" nil t)
> require(essd-sas)
> eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*<2>> nil
> "/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess-5.2.0/lisp/ess-site" nil t)
>
> load-with-code-conversion("/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess-5.2.0/lisp/ess-site.el"
> "/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess-5.2.0/lisp/ess-site" nil
> nil)
> load("/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess-5.2.0/lisp/ess-site")
> eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "~/.emacs" nil t)
> load-with-code-conversion("/cygdrive/c/.emacs" "~/.emacs" t t)
> load("~/.emacs" t t)
> #[nil
> "?? Æ=?ÇÈQ?5 É=?'ÊÇËÌ#?#Í?5Î?5 Ï=?1Ð?5ÇÑQÒÓ\nÒ?#? Ò=?FË ??Ô !Õ???Ö !?×PØ
> !?d
> ?oØ\f!?n\f?oË???Ù\f \"??ÚÛ\f #?ÜÝ!?\f* ??Ë ÓÞÒ?#))?" [init-file-user
> system-type user-init-file-1 user-init-file source alt ms-dos "~" "/_emacs"
> windows-nt directory-files nil "^\\.emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" "~/.emacs" "~/_emacs"
> vax-vms "sys$login:.emacs" "/.emacs" t load file-name-extension "elc"
> file-name-sans-extension ".el" file-exists-p file-newer-than-file-p message
> "Warning: %s is newer than %s" sit-for 1 "default" inhibit-default-init
> inhibit-startup-message] 5]()
> command-line()
> normal-top-level()
>
> Here's my .emacs file (very short and sweet):
>
> (load "/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess-5.2.0/lisp/ess-site")
>
> I searched around the web for quite a while, until I finally found this posting
> to the ess-help mailing list back in February 2002
> (http://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2002-February/000886.html):
>
> ;;; shell on windows to bash
>
> ;;; this sequence is designed to be occupy several lines
> ;;; in emacs/emacs-21.1.90/site-lisp/site-start.el
>
> ;;; This file requires no changes to run in a different path.
> ;;; When it is installed in the ../emacs/emacs-21.1.90/site-lisp/
> ;;; directory, it will know where it is. For example, if we are in
> ;;; "c:/emacs/emacs-21.1.90/site-lisp/site-start.el" then
> ;;; `where' is "c:/"
>
> ;;; It also assume that emacs and cygwin are parallel in the directory
> ;;; structure, that is, that you are working with, for example,
> ;;; c:/emacs/emacs-21.1.90/
> ;;; c:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe
>
> (make-local-variable 'where)
> (setq where (file-name-directory
> (file-truename (concat load-file-name "/../../.."))))
> (make-local-variable 'progra~1)
> (setq progra~1 (concat where "progra~1/"))
> (make-local-variable 'cygwin)
> (make-local-variable 'cygwin-bin)
> (make-local-variable 'cygwin-bash)
> (setq cygwin (concat where "cygwin"))
> (setq cygwin-bin (concat cygwin "/bin"))
> (setq cygwin-bash (concat cygwin-bin "/bash.exe"))
> (setenv "COMSPEC" cygwin-bash)
> (setenv "SHELL" cygwin-bash)
> (setq shell-file-name cygwin-bash)
>
>
> Creating a site-start.el file with this in it did the trick (even though my
> emacs & cygwin are not in a parallel directory structure, go figure).
>
> So, that's the problem I faced and the solution I used. I just thought I'd let
> you know, in case there was a problem with ESS rather than with me.
>
> Best,
> Barrett
>
> -----
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