New Tester: make errors on custom

New Tester: make errors on custom

[Jake Colman]

Trying to build qgnus-0.23, I get a build failure on lpath.el because of
custom.  Below is the make output:

cd lisp; gmake EMACS=emacs all
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/am/washington/home/colman/site-lisp/qgnus-0.23/lisp'
rm -f *.elc ; emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l ./dgnushack.el -f dgnushack-compile
Loading ./lpath.el...
Cannot open load file: custom
gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 255
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/am/washington/home/colman/site-lisp/qgnus-0.23/lisp'
gmake: *** [lick] Error 2

I am running the following version of Emacs:

GNU Emacs 20.2.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.4, X toolkit)
 of Mon Dec  1 1997 on clay.principia.com

I know that custom is installed properly on my system because it is used
throughout Emacs 20.2 and it works fine.  What, presumably obvious, thing am I
missing?

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Re: New Tester: make errors on custom

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> Trying to build qgnus-0.23, I get a build failure on lpath.el because of
> custom.  Below is the make output:

[...]

> Cannot open load file: custom

You probably have to add the location of the Custom package to the
load-path in dgnushack.el.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

More Build Problems

[Jake Colman]

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:


    LMI> You probably have to add the location of the Custom package to the
    LMI> load-path in dgnushack.el.

OK. I did that and now I get the following after I do a make:


rm -f *.elc ; emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l ./dgnushack.el -f dgnushack-compile
`cl.el' was compiled for Emacs 19.29 or later
*** Error code 255
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'
Current working directory /am/washington/home/colman/site-lisp/qgnus-0.23/lisp
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `lick'


As an aside, why does custom need to be explicitly specified on the load-path?
Isn't it dumped with Emacs?

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Re: More Build Problems

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> rm -f *.elc ; emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l ./dgnushack.el -f dgnushack-compile
> `cl.el' was compiled for Emacs 19.29 or later
> *** Error code 255

This means that your cl.el was compiled for Emacs 19.29 or later.  So
you should use Emacs 19.29 or later when compiling.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: More Build Problems

[Jake Colman]

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

    LMI> Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:
    >> rm -f *.elc ; emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l ./dgnushack.el -f
    >> dgnushack-compile `cl.el' was compiled for Emacs 19.29 or later Error
    >> code 255

    LMI> This means that your cl.el was compiled for Emacs 19.29 or later.  So
    LMI> you should use Emacs 19.29 or later when compiling.

Look at my email header:  X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2

My initial posting including the output of (emacs-version):

GNU Emacs 20.2.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.4, X toolkit)
 of Mon Dec  1 1997 on clay.principia.com

Am I missing something obvious? 'cause I'm starting to feel really dumb!


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Re: More Build Problems

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

>     LMI> This means that your cl.el was compiled for Emacs 19.29 or later.  So
>     LMI> you should use Emacs 19.29 or later when compiling.
> 
> Look at my email header:  X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2
> 
> My initial posting including the output of (emacs-version):
> 
> GNU Emacs 20.2.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.4, X toolkit)
>  of Mon Dec  1 1997 on clay.principia.com
> 
> Am I missing something obvious? 'cause I'm starting to feel really dumb!

Apparently the Emacs you're using when compiling isn't the same as
you're using when reading.  For some reason or other.  

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: More Build Problems

[Jake Colman]

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

    LMI> Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes: This means that your cl.el was
    LMI> compiled for Emacs 19.29 or later.  So you should use Emacs 19.29 or
    LMI> later when compiling.
    >>  Look at my email header: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2
    >> 
    >> My initial posting including the output of (emacs-version):
    >> 
    >> GNU Emacs 20.2.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.4, X toolkit) of Mon Dec 1 1997 on
    >> clay.principia.com
    >> 
    >> Am I missing something obvious? 'cause I'm starting to feel really dumb!

    LMI> Apparently the Emacs you're using when compiling isn't the same as
    LMI> you're using when reading.  For some reason or other.

For reasons that totally escape me, unless I fully qualify EMACS to point to
the emacs in my ~/bin directory, it is finding the SA-installed version which
is an earlier version.  This is happening even though my version of emacs is in
my PATH prior to the SA version.

Go figure...

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