Re: Building xemacs-21.5.18: Buffer is read-only: #<buffer "finder-inf.el"> (fwd)

Ed> I tried to build xemacs-21.5.18 from the source tarball using Ed> the commands Source _tarball_ or source _RPM_? If the former, Ed> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/xemacs-21.5.18 is the wrong place to put XEmacs. It probably has permissions expecting that all builds there will take place under the tender guidance of rpm. Try su'ing to root and doing chown -R ED.ED /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/xemacs-21.5.18 where ED.ED is your non-root user and group. Alternatively, as root chmod -R 0777 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/xemacs-21.5.18 In the future, you should probably build XEmacs.ORG sources in /usr/local/src; make sure /usr/local/src has ownership and permissions set for use by you. Ed> Please let me know if you're able to reproduce this. No. I have no trouble building XEmacs 21.5.18 on several systems. I'd need to know ownership and permissions of /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/xemacs-21.5.18/lisp/finder-inf.el* to guess at how to reproduce. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences 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.