| Re: Symbol's value as variable is void: idlwave-sys-dir [message #44637 is a reply to message #44635] |
Wed, 29 June 2005 11:10  |
JD Smith
Messages: 850
Registered: December 1999
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On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:46:33 -0700, Jess wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am a new idlwave user, and having just got out syspeople to upgrade
> idlwave to the current version 5.6 I am keen to make the most of it. It
> all seems to work, except when I open the idlwave shell anew in an
> emacs window with C-c C-s, the first time I always get this error:
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> Symbol's value as variable is void: idlwave-sys-dir
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> while on the second C-c C-s the shell does open.
>
> I believe this error is caused by the fact that we were unable to
> upgrade idlw-shell.el, so this was removed from LISPFILE list in the
> idlwave-5.6/Makefile and the rest was upgraded. The error that occurred
> while running gmake on the original Makefile was:
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> jobrien@magpie idlwave-5.6/> gmake
> emacs -batch -no-init-file -l lpath.el -f batch-byte-compile idlwave.el
> idlw-help.el idlw-rinfo.el idlw-shell.el idlw-toolbar.el
> idlw-complete-structtag.el idlw-roprompt.el
> Wrote /home/jobrien/sysman/idlwave-5.6/idlwave.elc
> Wrote /home/jobrien/sysman/idlwave-5.6/idlw-help.elc
> Wrote /home/jobrien/sysman/idlwave-5.6/idlw-rinfo.elc
> Loading
> /usr/local/libexec/emacs/21.4/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/fns-21.4. 1.el
> (source)...
> While compiling toplevel forms in file
> /home/jobrien/sysman/idlwave-5.6/idlw-shell.el:
> !! Symbol's value as variable is void
> ((fume-function-name-regexp-alist))
> Wrote /home/jobrien/sysman/idlwave-5.6/idlw-toolbar.elc
> Wrote /home/jobrien/sysman/idlwave-5.6/idlw-complete-structtag.elc
> Wrote /home/jobrien/sysman/idlwave-5.6/idlw-roprompt.elc
> Done
> gmake: *** [lisp] Error 1
>
> Looking through our emacs distribution we saw that we have a file
> func-menu.el which is more than 10 years old. Is this the cause of the
> problem? If so where can we get an upgrade from. And is it likely to
> effect any other emacs modes, or is it for idlwave only?
>
> We still have a lot of idlde users here, who I think dont know what
> they're missing with idlwave. But it would be good if I can fix this
> error first.
Haven't seen that one before, but I believe you are correct that
func-menu is what's breaking the compile. That is actually a (deprecated)
XEmacs package, whose functionality is completely superseded in (X)Emacs by
imenu (it's what gives those neat popups listing routines in a file, etc.
that you see in the some of the screenshots at idlwave.org).
Try removing the vestigial func-menu.el[c] file(s) and see if that
fixes your compile and runtime problems. I should probably make
func-menu the backup rather than the default if found.
JD
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