From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: idlwave won't byte compile Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 11:41:23 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4138ACC3.7020000@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094233517 15610 80.91.224.253 (3 Sep 2004 17:45:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 17:45:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 03 19:45:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C3I7U-0002iM-00 for ; Fri, 03 Sep 2004 19:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C3ICW-00035z-56 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:50:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 4nHNzZ3xoTr4J6qCTdlWXA9TSqj5iiWuEBQ07Q1mFhSdVdSig= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125074 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20427 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20427 Jeff Berry wrote: > I'm trying to install idlwave-5.3 for a user at my site, and it > won't byte compile. I'm running AIX4.3 and emacs-21.3, and when > I try to make idlwave, I get this: > =================== > emacs-21.3 -batch -no-init-file -l lpath.el -f batch-byte-compile idlwave.el idlw-help.el idlw-shell.el idlw-rinfo.el idlw-toolbar.el idlw-complete-structtag.el idlw-roprompt.el > While compiling toplevel forms in file /mnt/src/idlwave-5.3/idlwave.el: > !! error (("Required feature idlw-help was not provided")) > Wrote /mnt/src/idlwave-5.3/idlw-help.elc > While compiling toplevel forms in file /mnt/src/idlwave-5.3/idlw-shell.el: > !! error (("Required feature idlw-help was not provided")) > Wrote /mnt/src/idlwave-5.3/idlw-rinfo.elc > Wrote /mnt/src/idlwave-5.3/idlw-toolbar.elc > Wrote /mnt/src/idlwave-5.3/idlw-complete-structtag.elc > Wrote /mnt/src/idlwave-5.3/idlw-roprompt.elc > Done > gmake: *** [lisp] Error 1 > =================== > > The file idlw-help.el is in the local directory and the file lpath.el > looks like this: > ============= > ;; IDLWAVE helper file for batch compiles -- Make sure we get the right files. > (setq load-path (cons "." load-path) > byte-compile-warnings nil) > =============== > > Am I, not being a lisp programmer or much of emacs user, missing something > obvious here? No, idlwave's author did: idlwave.el and idlw-shell.el must have (require 'idlw-help), but idlw-help.el does not have (provide 'idlw-help); so add it at the end of the file. -- Kevin Rodgers