Xemacs21 problems with ESS 5.9.1 ?? [FWD from ESS-debian]

Thu Jun 3 16:53:07 CEST 2010

On 06/ 3/10 02:01 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
> Dear Rodney,
> you are *the* XEmacs guy inside ESS-core,
>
> Could you perhaps help the "ESS-debian" maintainers here,
> who found that ESS 5.9.1 seems to "fail" with Xemacs 21.4.22 ?
>
> Thank you in advance!
> Martin
>
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> Subject: Re: Bug#583857: ess: Upgrade to 5.9.1-1 fails
> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 08:51:56 -0500
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>
> Hi ess-debian,
>
> This bug report came in yesterday. It desribes an issue with xemacs21.  I
> have to admit that I haven't had XEmacs installed in few years. Could one of
> you elisp chumps take a look and see if the bug report is valid, if there is
> a workaround etc pp?
>
> Thanks, Dirk
>
> On 31 May 2010 at 07:29, Carl-Fredrik Enell wrote:
> | Package: ess
> | Version: 5.9.1-1
> | Severity: important
> |
> |
> |
> | -- System Information:
> | Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> |   APT prefers stable
> |   APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> | Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> |
> | Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> | Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> |
> | Versions of packages ess depends on:
> | ii  dpkg                      1.15.7.2       Debian package management system
> | ii  install-info              4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
> | ii  xemacs21-mule [emacsen]   21.4.22-3      highly customizable text editor --
> |
> | ess recommends no packages.
> |
> | Versions of packages ess suggests:
> | pn  pspp<none>             (no description available)
> | ii  r-base-core            2.11.1~20100525-1 GNU R core of statistical computat
> | pn  xlispstat<none>             (no description available)
> |
> | -- no debconf information
> | Messages follow
> |
> | Setting up ess (5.9.1-1) ...
> | install/ess: Handling install for emacsen flavor xemacs21
> | loading 'ess-compat ..
> | Loading ess-compat... (file ess-compat.el is newer)
> | loading 'ess-custom ..
> | Loading ess-custom... (file ess-custom.el is newer)
> | loading 'ess ..
> | loading 'ess-site ..
> | Loading ess-site... (file ess-site.el is newer)
> | [ess-site:] ess-lisp-directory = '/usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ess'
> | [ess-site:] Before requiring dialect 'ess-*-d ....
> | [ess-site:] require 'ess-r-d ...
> | Loading ess-r-d... (file ess-r-d.el is newer)
> | [ess-r-d:] (require 'ess-s-l)
> | Loading ess-s-l... (file ess-s-l.el is newer)
> | [ess-s-l:] (def** ) only ...
> | Loading ess-mode... (file ess-mode.el is newer)
> | Loading noweb-mode... (file noweb-mode.el is newer)
> | Loading ess-inf... (file ess-inf.el is newer)
> | Loading ess-utils... (file ess-utils.el is newer)
> | Loading ess-r-args... (file ess-r-args.el is newer)
> | [ess-r-d:] (autoload ..)&  (def** ..)
> | [ess-site:] require 'ess-sp3-d ...
> | Loading ess-sp3-d... (file ess-sp3-d.el is newer)
> | [ess-site:] require 'ess-sp5-d ...
> | Loading ess-sp5-d... (file ess-sp5-d.el is newer)
> | [ess-site:] require 'ess-sp6-d ...
> | Loading ess-sp6-d... (file ess-sp6-d.el is newer)
> | [ess-site:] require 'ess-sta-d ...
> | Loading ess-sta-d... (file ess-sta-d.el is newer)
> | Loading ess-sta-l... (file ess-sta-l.el is newer)
> | Loading make-regexp... (file make-regexp.el is newer)
> | [ess-site:] require 'ess-xls-d ...
> | Loading ess-xls-d... (file ess-xls-d.el is newer)
> | Loading ess-lsp-l... (file ess-lsp-l.el is newer)
> | [ess-site:] require 'ess-vst-d ...
> | Loading ess-vst-d... (file ess-vst-d.el is newer)
> | [ess-site:] require 'ess-arc-d ...
> | Loading ess-arc-d... (file ess-arc-d.el is newer)
> | [ess-site:] require 'ess-sas-d ...
> | Loading ess-sas-d... (file ess-sas-d.el is newer)
> | [ess-sas-d:] require 'comint&  'shell ...
> | [ess-sas-d:] require 'ess-sas-l ...
> | Loading ess-sas-l... (file ess-sas-l.el is newer)
> | [ess-sas-l:] (require 'ess) ...
> | [ess-sas-l:] (require 'ess-mode) ...
> | [ess-sas-l:] (autoload ..) (def** ..) etc ...
> | Loading ess-sas-a... (file ess-sas-a.el is newer)
> | [ess-sas-d:] (autoload ..) (def** ..) ...
> | [ess-site:] require 'essd-els ...
> | Loading essd-els... (file essd-els.el is newer)
> | [ess-site:] require 'ess-bugs-l ...
> | Loading ess-bugs-l... (file ess-bugs-l.el is newer)
> | Loading ess-noweb... (file ess-noweb.el is newer)
> | Loading ess-swv... (file ess-swv.el is newer)
> | [ess-site:] require 'ess   *ITSELF* ...
> | Loading ess-menu... (file ess-menu.el is newer)
> | Loading ess-mouse... (file ess-mouse.el is newer)
> | Loading mouseme... (file mouseme.el is newer)
> | Loading ess-toolbar... (file ess-toolbar.el is newer)
> | Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ess/ess-arc-d.el...
> | Wrote /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ess/ess-arc-d.elc
> |
> | ...
> |
> | While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/ess/ess-rutils.el:
> |   !! Invalid read syntax ((")"))
> |>>Error occurred processing ess-rutils.el:
> | Invalid read syntax: ")"
> |
> |
> | ...
> |
> | Done
> | emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ess xemacs21 xemacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30,<TSORT>  line 1.
> | dpkg: error processing ess (--configure):
> |  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> | Errors were encountered while processing:
> |  ess
> | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> |
> |
>    
Well, I don't use linux, but in my fresh install of ESS 5.9.1 on
real UNIX there is no ess-rutils.el file.  Also, you have a lot of
"file .el is newer" messages.  That will not occur in a proper ESS
installation since the .elc files will always be newer than
the .el files (as they are created from the .el files).  Something
is seriously hosed.

-- 
Rodney Sparapani       Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research
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