Re: which emacs? (was:Re: Installation problems)

[Alex Lancaster]

>>>>> "MG" == Martin Gutting <address@hidden> writes:

MG> After these changes make runs without errors till it needs Emacs
MG> (by the way: in the installation guide Emacs is never
MG> mentioned). I use XEmacs which produces the following error: [..]
MG> Symbol's function definition is void: with-temp-buffer

>>>>> "MD" =  Marcus G. Daniels <address@hidden> writes:

MD>  GNU Emacs is only needed for a Java build.  If you don't intend to
MD> do a build for Java support, you can disable it with
MD> --without-jdkdir at configure time.

>>>>> "DD" == Daniel Drewes <address@hidden> writes:

DD> hm... let's see ------ gmake [...]  Wrote
DD> /tmp/swarm/swarm-2.0.1/java/_java-stub.elc Done mv
DD> ./_java-stub.elc java-stub.elc rm -f ./_java-stub.el
DD> SWARMSRCDIR=.. TOP_BUILDDIR=/tmp/swarm/swarm-2.0.1/
DD> BUILDDIR=/tmp/swarm/swarm-2.0.1/java /opt/bin/emacs -batch -l
DD> /tmp/swarm/swarm-2.0.1/java/java-stub.elc -f java-run-all-unicode
DD> Symbol's value as variable is void: :unicode gmake[2]: ***
DD> [Makefile.common] Error 255 gmake[2]: Leaving directory
DD> `/tmp/swarm/swarm-2.0.1/java' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error
DD> 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/swarm/swarm-2.0.1' gmake: ***
DD> [all-recursive-am] Error 2

What Marcus was pointing out was that you don't need emacs at all, if
you don't want Java.  If you don't need Java, you'll need to clean out
your build directory (or just remove your source directory and
re-untar the archive) and when you run configure, pass the
--without-jdk option, like:

$ ./configure --prefix=/whatever --without-jdkdir


DD> Does this mean I should consider updating emacs? My current one
DD> (for Solaris2.6) is 19.34.1 -- I don't even remember when this one
DD> was released.

If you *do* want Java, then you'll probably need at least one of the
emacs-20.x series releases.  Your problem may or may not be related to
your particular emacs version (without running a test here), but one
thing is sure: emacs 19.34.1 is so old now that we don't do any
testing against it anymore, so we certainly don't recommend using it,
and we don't support.

Alex

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