Problems installing ESS on Sun Solaris with XEmacs 21.1

[Stephen Lawrence]

Hi,

I originally had ESS working perfectly on a Sun Ultra 10 system... But
then... the system administrator decided to do some "upgrades" to the
system and software. Now I don't have ESS (although I do have S Plus 5
instead of Splus 3).

I downloaded the latest version of ESS (5.1.18?) and followed the
instructions as before. When I go to "make" the lisp files (or when I
simply add the line (setq load-path (append load-path (list
"/home/lawrenst/ESS/lisp"))) to my .emacs file) I get the error :

Cannot open load file: comint

or

xemacs exiting.Cannot open load file: comint
*** Error code 255
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `ess-cust.elc'

I spoke to the system administrator and he said that since he had
reinstalled xemacs, it appears that comint is not included in the
standard distribution. He also said that he was busy and had spent far
too long trying to get ESS to work and suggested that I email the
mailing lists to find out what to do.

I spent some time trying to figure out a solution, but I am more a
statistics person than I am a unix person, so I figured I'd ask the ESS
help list.

Any suggestions as to how I can get ESS to work with xemacs? Answers in
a form that I can give back to the system administrator for him to
execute would be appreciated.

Steve Lawrence

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