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In article <4138ACC3.7020000@yahoo.com>,
Kevin Rodgers  <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote:
>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:
> > 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

Thanks very much.  That was pretty much it.  I actually had to add two
lines:
(provide 'idlw-help)
(provide 'idlwave-help)


But once I knew what I was looking for, it was easy to sort out.

Thanks again,

Jeff Berry/NASA GISS