Re: Compile problems

[Alex Lancaster]

>>>>> "LL" == Levente -Levi- Littvay <address@hidden> writes:

LL> hello I am getting an error message when I try to compile Swarm.
LL> I have the same problem with the CVS and the stable and the
LL> unstable CVS version.

LL> It seems to me that the binary included with the source code,
LL> missing, is not accepting a parometer that the make file wants to
LL> feed it, but I have no idea why.  Can someone help?

LL> Here is the error message.

LL> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/install/swarm-cvs/swarm/src' cp
LL> -f ../etc/common.el /install/swarm-cvs/swarm/_common.el
LL> TOP_BUILDDIR='/install/swarm-cvs/swarm'
LL> BUILDDIR='/home/install/swarm-cvs/swarm/src' SWARMSRCDIR='..'
LL> missing -batch -f batch-byte-compile
LL> /install/swarm-cvs/swarm/_common.el /usr/local/bin/missing:
LL> Unknown `-batch' option Try `/usr/local/bin/missing --help' for
LL> more information make[2]: ***
LL> [/install/swarm-cvs/swarm/common.elc] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving
LL> directory `/home/install/swarm-cvs/swarm/src' make[1]: ***
LL> [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory
LL> `/home/install/swarm-cvs/swarm' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error
LL> 2

It looks like you don't have emacs installed, and it is consequently
trying to pass the "-batch" the option to "missing", rather than
"emacs".

If you build from source (especially from CVS), you need to have Emacs
installed.  

Alex
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      Alex Lancaster |  Swarm Development Group  |  http://www.swarm.org


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