Re: [Bug: 21.4.18] Get "(local-variables/warning) File local-variables error: Symbol's value as variable is void: compile-command" warning when switching buffers

Gary> I keep getting a "(local-variables/warning) File Gary> local-variables error: Symbol's value as variable is void: Gary> compile-command" warning buffer appearing EVERYTIME I switch Gary> buffers. Is there a -*- compile-command: something -*- at the top of the Java file, or a /* Local variables: ... section containing compile-command at the bottom of the file? If not, that's quite a strange message. The only other thing I can suggest offhand is to confirm which java-mode you're using (it's probably from cc-mode) by finding a .java file, eliciting the bug, and typing C-h f java-mode RET to get its docstring. I hesitate to recommend bothering the CC Mode people yet if it is their version, but depending on how much of a hurry you're in, you could check with them. (See the docstring for how.) Gary> do it via XEmacs, got a message saying: "Cannot open load Gary> file: message" when I select the menu option "Mail -> Send Gary> and Exit". sigh...) message.el is part of Gnus, but we don't use that by default since it's a big package that many people see no reason to install. Is there any chance you, or somebody you borrowed customizations from, is using Gnus as their mail-user-agent? Gary> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] *sigh* Gary> Building XEmacs in Gary> "E:\\acs\\software\\XEmacsWindowsKit\\xemacs-21.4.18\\nt". Using the prebuilt version? Windows has this habit of picking up the packager's defaults that get squirreled away somewhere in the preloaded files. That's _possible_ for `message' but doesn't seem likely to explain the Java thing. What does C-h v mail-user-agent RET have to say? If you restart XEmacs without loading the init file (you'll have to start it from a DOS window with --vanilla as far as I know), what does it say about mail-user-agent? Gary> Searching for program: No such file or directory, xargs Something's old, I think. We just fixed a bug with xargs (standard on Unix, not on Windows---we used to use it unconditionally, now we test for it ... maybe that's just a loud test?) -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.