Bug#710438: ess: fails to compile for emacs22

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 30 May 2013 at 15:30, Brian Minton wrote:
| Package: ess
| Version: 13.05-2
| Severity: normal
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| Dear Maintainer,
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| Setting up ess (13.05-2) ...
| Install ess for emacs
| Install ess for emacs22
| install/ess: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs22
| loading 'ess-compat ..
| loading 'ess-custom ..
| loading 'ess ..
| loading 'ess-site ..
| [ess-site:] ess-lisp-directory = '/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess'
| [ess-site:] require 'ess   *ITSELF* ...
| [ess-site:] .. after requiring 'ess ...
| [ess-site:] Before requiring dialect 'ess-*-d ....
| [ess-site:] require 'ess-r-d ...
| [ess-r-d:] (require 'ess-s-l)
| [ess-s-l:] (def** ) only ...
| enabling speedbar support
| Symbol's value as variable is void: split-width-threshold
| ERROR: install script from ess package failed
| dpkg: error processing ess (--configure):
|  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
| Errors were encountered while processing:
|  ess

Yes, that is known and documented. I have the same issue pending from
xemacs21, so I will add these tests to the top of the install script:

if [ ${FLAVOR} = xemacs21 ]; then exit 0; fi

if [ ${FLAVOR} = emacs22 ]; then exit 0; fi


Dirk
 
 
| - -- System Information:
| Debian Release: jessie/sid
|   APT prefers unstable
|   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
| Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
| Foreign Architectures: amd64
| 
| Kernel: Linux 3.9.0 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
| Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
| 
| Versions of packages ess depends on:
| ii  dpkg               1.16.10
| ii  emacs22 [emacsen]  22.3+1-1.2+b1
| ii  emacs23 [emacsen]  23.4+1-4
| ii  install-info       5.1.dfsg.1-3
| 
| ess recommends no packages.
| 
| Versions of packages ess suggests:
| pn  jags         <none>
| pn  pspp         <none>
| ii  r-base       3.0.0-2
| ii  r-base-core  3.0.0-2
| pn  xlispstat    <none>
| 
| - -- no debconf information
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Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com