question on building ess 5.1.11

[Michael Herron]

Rich Heiberger writes:
 > Can you send us the transcript of the *shell* where the 5.1.12 missing
 > separator message is displayed?  Thanks.

Sure:

brahms(mch927) 119% gmake EMACS=xemacs
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/.../nwu.edu/fs/home/m/mch927/lib/emacs/ess-5.1.12/lisp'
Makefile:44: *** missing separator.  Stop.
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/.../nwu.edu/fs/home/m/mch927/lib/emacs/ess-5.1.12/lisp'
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/.../nwu.edu/fs/home/m/mch927/lib/emacs/ess-5.1.12/doc'
making Info documentation...
makeinfo ess.texi
Making info file `ess.info' from `ess.texi'.
/.../nwu.edu/fs/home/m/mch927/lib/emacs/ess-5.1.12/doc/ess.info: Permission denied
gmake[1]: *** [ess.info] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/.../nwu.edu/fs/home/m/mch927/lib/emacs/ess-5.1.12/doc'
brahms(mch927) 120% 

 > Can you try again with "xemacs -q --no-site-file", just to verify that
 > there is not an interaction with your .emacs or site-start.el

Ah!!  Now it works.  I think I might have been loading an old version
of ESS and this caused a clash with 5.1.11.  (dumb mistake) So, I just
byte-compiled ess-site and it appears to run.  But, I just ran into
another problem.

I did M-x S+5 and then C-c C-v lm to make sure help works.  The result
was a buffer that says:

    cat: illegal option -- c
    Usage: cat [-benrstuv] [-|File ...]

Here is a dump of the *ESS* buffer:

(S+5): ess-dialect=Initial-dialect, buf=*scratch*
(inferior-ess 0): ess-start-args=nil 
ess-setq-vars-default 0: ess-language=Initial, -dialect=Initial-dialect, buf=*ESS*, comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send
ess-setq-vars-default 1: ess-language=S, -dialect=S+5, buf=*ESS*, comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send
(inf-ess 1): lang=S, dialect=S+5, tmp-dialect=S+5, buf=*scratch*
(inf-ess 1.1): procname=S+5 temp-dialect=S+5, buf-name=*S+5* 
(inferior-ess) Method #3
(ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=S, dialect=S+5, buf=*S+5*, comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send
(inf-ess 2.1): ess-language=S, ess-dialect=S+5 buf=*S+5* 
(inf-ess 2.2): start args = nil, inf-ess-start-args= 
(inf-ess finis [S(S+5), Splus5(nil,nil)]
(ess-multi 0):  inf-ess-start-args=, comint-..echoes=nil
(i-ess 1): buf=*S+5*, lang=S, comint..echo=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send,
(i-ess 2): buf=*S+5*, lang=S, comint..echo=t, comint..sender=inferior-ess-input-sender,
(ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=S, dialect=S+5, buf=*S+5*, comint..echoes=t, comint..sender=inferior-ess-input-sender
(i-ess 3): curr-buf=*S+5*, comint..echo=t, comint..sender=inferior-ess-input-sender,
(ess-multi post inf-ess: start-args=, comint-echoes=t
(ess-multi 1):  start-args= 
Making Process...Buf *S+5*, Proc S+5, Prog Splus5
 Start File=nil, Args= .
(ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=S, dialect=S+5, buf=*help[S+5](lm)*, comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send

Thanks,

Michael
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