Re: Flymake and tramp

[Michael Albinus]

Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za> writes:

> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 09:45:09PM +0200, Michael Albinus wrote:
>>Jonathan Groll  writes:
>>
>>>> When I open a ruby buffer using tramp's ssh method I get a popup
>>>> stating:
>>>>
>>>> Flymake: Configuration error has occured while running (ruby -c
>>>> buffername_flymake.rb). Flymake will be switched OFF
>>>
>>> A temp-inplace file is created by flymake, reading the above it seems
>>> that this is a path issue, or is that wrong? I tried adding
>>> /var/www/blog to $PATH in ~/.shrc and ~/.bashrc on the remote host,
>>> and also customized "Tramp Remote Path" but none of those worked
>>> yet...
>>
>>Which Emacs and Tramp versions are you using?
>
> GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.0) of
> 2009-04-05 on palmer, modified by Debian
> 2.1.15

In `flymake-start-syntax-check-process' of flymake.el, `start-process'
is called. This does not work on remote hosts. Instead of,
`start-file-process' shall be used.

> Regards,
> Jonathan

Best regards, Michael.