>>>> "KJ" == Kyle Jones
<kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com> writes:
KJ> SL Baur writes:
> Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes in
> xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
>
> > I downloaded and installed the latest tarball, did a M-x vm, and
> > got (from C-h l):
>
> > Invalid function: (macro . #<compiled-function (&rest forms)
> > "...(16)" [let ((vm-sbe-buffer (current-buffer))) unwind-protect
> > progn forms (and (not (eq vm-sbe-buffer (current-buffer)))
> > (buffer-name vm-sbe-buffer) (set-buffer vm-sbe-buffer))] 5>)
> ...
> > Steve, this looks like a simple packaging/byte-compiling
> > screwup. It's a showstopper.
>
> Something needs an (eval-when-compile (require 'vm-macro))[1] and
> doesn't have it.
>
> Footnotes: [1] If vm-macro.el is where this macro is defined.
KJ> Please use the Makefile to build VM. If you don't use the
KJ> Makefile, there may be Other Problems like autoloads not
KJ> happening, in addition to the macro lossage.
Has anyone fixed this problem for wankers like me that only haul in
sumos and the occassional package tar. The vm-1.18-pkg.tar.gz on
ftp.xemacs.org does not appear to ameliorate this problem.