Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-13 Thread Nicolai Guba
> "Mark" == Mark W Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.56/Emacs 19.34 >> This was precisely the problem. The EMACSLOADPATH was set in my >> user account, and I was trying to install in a window with su root, Mark> Ahhh. I think it would be reasonable to explicitly

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-12 Thread Paul
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I had a similar problem. How I solved it was to remove ALL emacs packages including setup files. Re-install, being carefull to install EXACTLY ONE emacs package. You may also install EXACTLY ONE XEmacs package and get it to work. It appears that it is quite easy

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-12 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> This was precisely the problem. The EMACSLOADPATH was set in my > user account, and I was trying to install in a window with su root, Ahhh. I think it would be reasonable to explicitly unset this (and probably other variables) in the emacsen-common handler scripts... just as they should avoi

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-12 Thread David R. Kohel
> > emacs-install emacs19 > > emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs19 > > emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs19 > > Well, do you have set EMACSLOADPATH on your root (or whatever are you > using for instaling new packages)? > > Bilbo This was precisely the problem. The EM

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-10 Thread David R. Kohel
> Seems like the most likely problem, but things have to be very odd for > that not to be found... what does dpkg -S bytecomp show? it should at > least have > emacs19: /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/bytecomp.elc Yes, on a machine with broken emacs19: emacs19: /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/bytecomp.e

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-10 Thread Mark W. Eichin
I'm not sure I've seen this reported before (but I'm way behind on list mail, and haven't checked the bug system for this specific thing) > Cannot open load file: bytecomp Seems like the most likely problem, but things have to be very odd for that not to be found... what does dpkg -S bytecomp sho

Broken emacs

1998-09-10 Thread David R. Kohel
I found some references to this in the July and August archives, but has no fix been found for the emacs19 & emacs20 packages? My apologies if there has been more recent discussion which I did not find in my search. As far as I could tell, some people got them to install by removing certain o