[ESS] Patch for ESS 12.04 released

[Vincent Goulet]

HI Martin,

Ok. I noticed a few other glitches:

1. With previous archives of ess, I could, in Safari, right-click on the link to download the file and select "Save target as..." to save the file wherever I please on my disk. With ess-12.04-1.zip AND ess-12.04-1.tgz, Safari insists that the file name should end with ".html". Safari is not that dumb usually. If I let it add the extension and remove it afterwards from the command line, 'unzip' reports an invalid archive.

2. On OS X, where 'emacs' is defined from the command line, ess compilation fails here:

Source file `/Users/vincent/Emacs-modified/macos/ess-12.04-1/lisp/ess-tracebug.el' newer than byte-compiled file
Invalid character: 8212, #o20024, #x2014
make[2]: *** [ess-custom.elc] Error 255
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2

This may have to do with my problems downloading the archive.

3. On Windows, where 'emacs' is not recognized as a command on the command line, build fails here:

cd lisp; make install
make[2]: Entering directory `/c/Emacs-modified/ess-12.04-1/lisp'
emacs -batch -no-site-file -no-init-file -l ./ess-comp.el -f batch-byte-c
ess-custom.el
make[2]: emacs: Command not found
make[2]: *** [ess-custom.elc] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/Emacs-modified/ess-12.04-1/lisp'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2

I suspect an 'emacs' has been hardcoded by mistake somewhere instead of using the environment variable.

The problems may very well be at my end, but I didn't change anything to my build environments since the previous release. Or perhaps 2 and 3 are related to 1.

HTH

v.

Vincent Goulet
Directeur général adjoint
Direction générale de la formation continue - DGFC

Le 2012-05-10 à 02:57, Martin Maechler a écrit :

> Dear Vincent,
> and other ESS "packaged distribution" maintainers.
> 
> I'm really sorry for the slight mess up in this release.
> The ESS lisp code is fine  -- apart from M-x ess-version
> 
> but I want to do an 12.04-2  patch, within a day or two to fix
> the "small mess".
> So, ideally do *not* release 12.04-1  for Windows at all.
> 
> Martin
> 
>>>>>> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>>>>    on Thu, 10 May 2012 01:07:40 +0200 writes:
> 
>>> On 9 May 2012 at 09:49, Vincent Goulet wrote: | Geez, how
>>> did you do, can't find the sources for 12.04-1 on the ESS
>>> web site! (I don't like too much to grab things in trunk
>>> of the svn repository.
> 
>>> 'svn up', edit debian/changelog and run this
>>> 'debian/rules tarball':
> 
> 
>>> ## edd 16 May 2008 trivial 'orig.tar.gz' creator ##
>>> technically, this could be a native Debian package as ##
>>> the debian/ is in upstream SVN but it is easier to have
>>> ## another degree of freedom for Debian revisions ## if
>>> we used just the svn rev: version := $(shell svnversion)
>>> ## edd 04 Oct 2008 use changelog entry instead version :=
>>> $(shell head -1 debian/changelog | perl -nle
>>> 'm/\((\S+)-\d\)/ && print $$1')
> 
>>> showversion: @echo Version is ${version}
> 
>>> tarball: (cd .. && \ tar czf
>>> tarballs/ess_${version}.orig.tar.gz ess \ --exclude=.svn
>>> \ --exclude=.git \ --exclude=debian )
> 
>> Thank you, Dirk.  That is a workaround {not using the
>> identical rule that the ESS makefile target uses}
> 
>> The fixes on VERSION (and SVN-VERSION) that makes M-x
>> ess-version unfortunately broke the final steps of the
>> release process.
> 
>> This should be fixed now.  I'm sorry for the confusion
>> this must have caused.
> 
>> Martin
> 
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