[ESS] R: ess problems on xemacs 21.4.19 on AIX

[CECCHI FABIO]

Hi Stephen,
	with respect the "voidness" of ess-s-versions-create, following your suggestion I solved the problem.
So many thanks! Below I describe what I have done.
Now I can use xemacs 2.4.19 with tarballs xemacs-sumo-2005-03-07.tar.bz2 and xemacs-mule-2005-03-07.tar.bz2 and ess-5.2.12.

I also tried to use the last tarballs (xemacs-sumo-2005-12-08.tar.bz2 tarball and xemacs-mule-2005-12-08.tar.bz2) of xemacs with such trick but the problem  related to error:
	Symbol's value as variable is void: inferior-ess-font-lock-keywords
remains.

Many thanks,
Fabio
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Using the command "M-x locate-library RET essd-sp6" I saw that essd is located in the old tree (i.e. of ess-5.2.3) as you suspected. This installation is under the 'canonical' place of xemacs (i.e. xemacs-packages/etc/ess, xemacs-packages/lisp/ess, xemacs-packages/man/ess and xemacs-packages/info/ess.info).
In order to follow your suggestion I deleted this directories. The ess-5.2.12 tree is located under xemacs-packages with the same name (ess-5.2.12) and in the site-start.el I put
(load "/opt/freeware/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/ess-5.2.11/lisp/ess/ess-site")
 where the "/opt/freeware" is the root of installed packages with rpm system on AIX.

For what I can understand now xemacs loads ess-site from "/opt/freeware/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/ess-5.2.11/lisp/ess" since it shows this pathname in the minibuffer during the loading, and the problem disappear. 

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-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Stephen Eglen [mailto:S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk] 
Inviato: giovedì 2 marzo 2006 19.22
A: CECCHI FABIO
Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Oggetto: [ESS] ess problems on xemacs 21.4.19 on AIX

Dear Fabio,
did you resolve this problem?


 > Also installing earlier versions of ess the problem still remains.
 > 
 > Then I have installed xemacs-21.4.19 with previous version of tarballs
 > (xemacs-sumo-2005-03-07.tar.bz2 tarball and
 > xemacs-mule-2005-03-07.tar.bz2).
 > 
 >  
 > 
 > ess-5.2.3 is present in the xemacs tarball, and stata or SAS process run
 > correctly.
 > 

 > At this point,  I installed ess-5.2.12 but when I start xemacs I get the
 > following error:
 > 
 >              Symbol's function definition is void:
 >              ess-s-versions-create

After getting the error, what does the following return?

  M-x locate-library RET essd-sp6


How did you install ess-5.2.12?  My guess is that if you have
ess-5.2.3 still hanging around, ESS may be finding the version of
essd-sp6.el (where ess-s-versions-create is defined, but probably not
in version 5.2.3) from the 5.2.3 directory tree.  Try moving the 5.2.3
out of the way, and swapping in the 5.2.12 tree.

Stephen


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