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From: kjones@talos.pm.com (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs,gnu.emacs.vms,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: problem using build.com. . .
Message-ID: <1990Mar5.134051.3728@talos.pm.com>
Date: 5 Mar 90 13:40:51 GMT
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Reply-To: kyle@cs.odu.edu
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Michael R Riley writes:
 > I'm trying to get emacs up and running on one of our systems, but I'm
 > running into a snag in the "build.com" file.
 > 
 > 		$@build
 > 		Loading inc-vers...
 > 		New Emacs version will be 18.55.10
 > 		Loading loadup.el...
 > [...]
 > 		Loading help...
 > 		Loading files...
 > problem--->	Invalid read syntax: ". in wrong context" 

I ran into this problem while helping a VMS admin install Emacs.  The
problem was that the byte-compiled version of files.el (files.elc) had
been corrupted.  Other .elc files may have been corrupted as well, but
we didn't bother checking; we just recompiled all the Lisp files.  If
you don't want to recompile all that stuff you should be able to get by
with just deleting files.elc.  Emacs will use files.el instead.