Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Subject: [P_LECLER%UNHH.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu: Problems compiling gnus.el] Message-ID: <53012@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 26 Jun 89 18:58:18 GMT Sender: bob@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Lines: 66 We haven't installed GNUS 3.12 yet here, so perhaps someone else can help: Date: Mon, 26 Jun 89 13:35 EDT From: Subject: Problems compiling gnus.el Bob, I just tried to compile the Gnus you just sent out and have had some problems getting gnus.el compiled.... I am running 18.51 on Ultrix 3.0 Vax system. No nntp services.. I have already successfully gotten other Gnus versions to run but this one. Paul Leclerc Bitnet: P_LECLERC@UNHH Here is a script of what happened. ;;;; Note this is after I have already compiled nntp.el Script started on Mon Jun 26 13:12:01 1989 =gnu=(@) 1:12pm make emacs -batch -f batch-byte-compile gnus.el Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-mode)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-startup-message)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-list-groups)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-prepare)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-prepare-line)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-update-group)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-group-name)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-read-group)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-select-group)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-jump-to-group)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-search-forward)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-next-group)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-next-unread-group)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-prev-group)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-prev-unread-group)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-catch-up)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-catch-up-all)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-unsubscribe-current-group). Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-unsubscribe-group)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-list-all-groups)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-get-new-news)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-restart)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-check-bogus-groups)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-restrict-groups)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-post-news)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-edit-global-kill)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-edit-local-kill)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-force-update)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-suspend)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-exit)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-quit)... Compiling /f/gnu/lib/emacs/lisp/gnus.el (gnus-Group-describe-briefly)... >>Error occurred processing gnus.el: Invalid read syntax ((")")) Done *** Error code 1 Stop. =gnu=(@) 1:12pm