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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 3 June 2010 at 12:09, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
| On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 10:34:23 -0500,
| Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| 
| > edd at ron:~/svn/ess/lisp> svn info ess-rutils.el Path: ess-rutils.el
| > Name: ess-rutils.el URL:
| > https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/trunk/lisp/ess-rutils.el Repository
| > Root: https://svn.r-project.org/ESS Repository UUID:
| > 0bbaf3bd-34e0-0310-bf65-c717079852d4 Revision: 4335 Node Kind: file
| > Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: sluque Last Changed Rev: 4299
| > Last Changed Date: 2010-04-17 12:19:34 -0500 (Sat, 17 Apr 2010) Text
| > Last Updated: 2010-04-17 12:19:34 -0500 (Sat, 17 Apr 2010) Checksum:
| > 3f7e2d47430ffbb724ffb29774381c15
| 
| > edd at ron:~/svn/ess/lisp>
| 
| > I prepare the Debian package based on what I find in SVN. If ess-core
| > doesn't want certain files here, maybe some logic needs to be added.
| 
| >> Also, you have a lot of "file .el is newer" messages.
| 
| > Irrelevant. On Debian systems, the packages contain only .el code and
| > are compiled into .elc upon installation of the given package, and
| > against all emacs versions present. To take a random example, this
| > machine currently has such on-demand builds for a2ps, apel, auctex,
| > bbdb, cmake, css-mode, several Debian internal packages, ess,
| > html-helper-mode, pymacs, python-mode and vm.
| 
| > None break, but then I currently only have emacs23
| > installed. Sometimes I run emacs-snapshot too. Ess never broke.
| 
| > Now it appears broken with xemacs.
| 
| >> 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.
| 
| > It simply is different here as we do not work from the pristine
| > tarball, yet work from the same sources.
| 
| So IIUC, the only problem now is:
| 
| 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: ")"
| 
| on XEmacs.  The "file *.el is newer" can be ignored.  Is that right?  I
| don't use XEmacs, but I'll try to zero in on that (a bit hard without
| access to XEmacs).  I don't see any of these issues with the Debian

Can you 'apt-get install xemacs21' on your system to tickle it?

| Emacs/ESS packages.  Rodney -- can you help me detect where the error
| occurs in XEmacs?
| 
| I see that I didn't include ess-rutils.el to the ELC variable in the
| Makefile.  Adding it now shows that it compiles alright, but that is
| irrelevant here as Dirk says.

That is still 'compiles allright' with gnu emacs, right?

-- 
  Regards, Dirk