[ESS-bugs] ess-mode 5.2.1 - (executable-find "acroread") is void

[john.gavin at ubs.com]

Hi Stephen,

> Please try the following:
> 
> xemacs -q
> 
> Put the following in the *scratch* buffer:
> 
>  (executable-find "acroread")
> 
> And then, with point at end of that line, type C-x C-e
> What message do you then get? For me, in the echo line I see
> "/usr/bin/acroread"
> 
> If you get a pathname or nil, you should be okay.  But maybe you are
> getting some error about it being a void function?  If so, we'll have
> to test further on a windows platform.

Unfortunately, I get 

"Symbol's function definition is void: executable-find"

Regards,

John.

John Gavin <john.gavin at ubs.com>,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Eglen [mailto:stephen at anc.ed.ac.uk]
> Sent: 29 June 2004 09:56
> To: Gavin, John
> Cc: ess-bugs at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [ESS-bugs] ess-mode 5.2.1 - (executable-find "acroread") is
> void
> 
> 
> hi John,
> 
>  > I just tried to upgrade from 5.2.0 to 5.2.1 but encountered a bug
>  > at startup which I hope is straightforward to correct.
>  > 
>  > Using the option '-debug-init' at startup
>  > and manually editing my .init.el file, 
>  > I have isolated the problem to the line (in init.el)
>  > 
>  > (load "C:/Program 
> Files/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/ess/lisp/ess-site.el")
>  > 
>  > With just this line on its own in my init.el file I 
>  > get the following error message:
>  > 
>  > Signaling: (void-function executable-find)
>  >   (executable-find "acroread")
>  >   (setq ess-tmp-file (executable-find "acroread"))
> 
> The problem seems to come from here:
> 
> essa-sas.el:98:    (setq ess-tmp-file (executable-find "acroread"))
> 
> But I can't see why this should fail, unless it is a Windows/Unix
> issue (I'm testing this on Unix).
> 
> Please try the following:
> 
> xemacs -q
> 
> Put the following in the *scratch* buffer:
> 
>  (executable-find "acroread")
> 
> And then, with point at end of that line, type C-x C-e
> What message do you then get? For me, in the echo line I see
> "/usr/bin/acroread"
> 
> If you get a pathname or nil, you should be okay.  But maybe you are
> getting some error about it being a void function?  If so, we'll have
> to test further on a windows platform.
> 
> Thanks, Stephen
> 

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