[ESS] User-space installation of ESS 18.10.2 failing

[Jeremie Juste]

Hello,

> Note: I tried installation from MELPA first, but the version of ess
> there insists on Emacs 25.1, and my available options are 26.1 or
> 27.1.
For info I have installed ess-version: 18.10.3snapshot [elpa:
20210307.735] both on linux and windows, from Melpa without any difficulties.

# emacs version on linux
GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.5,
cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-09-01

# emacs version on windows
GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2020-08-21


Best regards,
Jeremie

On Monday, 15 Mar 2021 at 11:29, Steve Gutreuter via ESS-help wrote:
> I am trying to install ess-18.10.2 from the tarball into .emac.d on a
> compute server for which I am not root.  After extracting the tarball
> into ~/.emacs.d/ess-18.10.2, entering that directory and executing
> make (all per the instructions in the ESS manual), I am getting
>
> $> make
> cd lisp; make all
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/scicomp/home-pure/wqh4/.emacs.d/ess-18.10.2/lisp'
> emacs -batch -no-site-file -no-init-file --directory . -f
> batch-byte-compile julia-mode.el
> Opening directory: Permission denied,
> /apps/x86_64/emacs/27.1/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess
> make[1]: *** [julia-mode.elc] Error 255
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/scicomp/home-pure/wqh4/.emacs.d/ess-18.10.2/lisp'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> There is no .configure file.  How doe one avoid the apparent need to
> write to /apps/x86_64/emacs/27.1/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess in order to
> install ess in .emacs.d?
>
> Note: I tried installation from MELPA first, but the version of ess
> there insists on Emacs 25.1, and my available options are 26.1 or
> 27.1.
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips.

-- 
Jeremie Juste