On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Bernd Paysan <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 25. März 2014, 12:31:03 schrieb Donald Winiecki: >> I can't say for sure what is happening under the hood. >> >> That said, the install of gforth _appears_ to complete successfully >> (that is, I can run gforth without drama afterwards), but the >> compilation of gforth.el does NOT complete and throws an error. This >> error seems to be left in the package manager system and then whenever >> installing anything through the package manager, the same error is >> output. > > I see. > >> I'm not sure if this actually affects the functioning of things, > > Well, if you have an outdated gforth.elc, it will not get replaced. > Otherwise, it doesn't stop anything from working, emacs will take the > gforth.el instead the gforth.elc, and take a little longer to load Forth mode. > That's all. ... > We have no problem with fixing this thing, this has been fixed in the Git head > when I got Emacs 24.x on my distribution.
I'll keep an eye out for word on this being distributed. Fresh git of gforth doesn't build for me without earlier gforth.
