mriley@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Michael R Riley) (03/04/90)
I'm trying to get emacs up and running on one of our systems, but I'm running into a snag in the "build.com" file. Wharton VAX 8700 VAX/VMS 4.7 $@build Loading inc-vers... New Emacs version will be 18.55.10 Loading loadup.el... Loading subr... Loading loaddefs.el... Loading simple... Loading help... Loading files... problem---> Invalid read syntax: ". in wrong context" I'm not sure what is causing this error. I was able to comment out "files" and "abbrevs" so that emacs would run, but it's sort of useless without them...I looked through files.el, but my lisp is rusty at best... Any help would be appreciated. . . Thanks, mriley@eniac.seas.upenn.edu riley@wharton.upenn.edu mriley@eniac.seas.upenn.edu riley@wharton.upenn.edu "That's your mom." (The "dude" is assumed)
kjones@talos.pm.com (Kyle Jones) (03/05/90)
Michael R Riley writes: > I'm trying to get emacs up and running on one of our systems, but I'm > running into a snag in the "build.com" file. > > $@build > Loading inc-vers... > New Emacs version will be 18.55.10 > Loading loadup.el... > [...] > Loading help... > Loading files... > problem---> Invalid read syntax: ". in wrong context" I ran into this problem while helping a VMS admin install Emacs. The problem was that the byte-compiled version of files.el (files.elc) had been corrupted. Other .elc files may have been corrupted as well, but we didn't bother checking; we just recompiled all the Lisp files. If you don't want to recompile all that stuff you should be able to get by with just deleting files.elc. Emacs will use files.el instead.