On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 05:34:32AM +0100, John Smith wrote:
> Damn you.
> I *told* you that I didn't have the time & skills to look into this further
> and you being so-nice-and-all guilt forced me into doing it :)
> ok, so a few take-aways from giving advices to an emacs noob:
> -on ubuntu the distribution only packages compiled lisp files so one needs
> to add a special package to get the sources
> -*In either case you can find it for sure with C-h f c-mode <ret>, and
> click/type CR on the file name. Then do C-x C-v to see where it is.*
> I could switch to the C-mode but never understood what "*click/type CR on
> the file name"* was supposed to mean. Anyways I found the file.
> -the patch didn't work since the lines you removed changed a bit between
> 23.4 and HEAD, but I worked around it.
> -like all good things there are dependencies: cc-defs.el for one and
> friends, I had to fetch them
Sorry, I'd forgotten about the dependencies.
> -mmh, it doesn't byte compile. actually, even vanilla unpatched file
> doesn't byte-compile:
> In c-declare-lang-variables:
> cc-engine.el:162:28:Warning: reference to free variable
> `c-lang-variable-inits'
> cc-engine.el:163:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void:
> c-lang-variable-inits
> I tried commenting out that line but no such luck.
> I guess this is a trivial problem and I need to build something else but
> mmh what? I'm stuck.
> Years of devs in heaps of languages and yet I'm so helpless with this one.
c-lang-variable-inits is needed at compile time, and is in a different
file. It would probably be easiest at this stage just to compile the
entire CC Mode. To do this, get all the files cc-*.el (there are 17)
gunzipped, and give this at the command line (not within Emacs):
$ emacs -Q -batch -f batch-byte-compile cc-*.el
> Cheers and thanks for the trip.
:-)
> John
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