ecb-activate renders my 21.5-b17+ XEmacs useless

[Berndl, Klaus]

Hi Adrian!

>There are not any precompiled binaries for the beta series.

what a bummer ;-)

>Since you already have an XEmacs installed, you could give my build
>package a try.

>You can use it to explore the process and any obstacles.

>I would be thankful for feedback on the build package and should be
>able to roll a few quick fixes if necessary.

Ok, sounds good - so i will try to use it. Could you give me a short introduction what are the steps i have to do (or at least a link where this is described), so something like this:

1. Ensure that cl.exe and nmake.exe are in your PATH
2. checkout latest CVS sources from...
3. use the build-package by calling M-x ... from your running XEmacs 
   21.4.14...
4. ...

Would be nice if you could give such an instruction-list, so i can build XEmacs 21.15 in an efficient way and do not waste time by try&error... For me it is importane to test ECB as best as possible with current flavors of (X)Emacs - at least with current released flavors ;-) But i know that many people use beta-versions, so i do also some tests with them. fortunately there are binaries of current GNU CVS-Emacs available (at least every 2 month they get updated) so i can test with this version with many effort... and because i already test ECB with CVS-GNU-Emacs i think XEmacs should not be discriminated ;-))

>You'll need a cvs executable which I'm sure you have, and Visual
>Studio (you should be able to get by with cl.exe and nmake.exe alone).

Should be possible to install a Microsoft-Compiler - which version do i need??

>Since we live in the same city, adidas network might also work to get
>a recent 21.5 native Windows installation ;->

Fine - so please come into Carl-Wery-Street 43, 81739 Munich and bring me a cd with an windows executable of XEmacs 21.15.XXX ;-)) I'm just joking........

>My bug report is for a native Windows build.  I don't know whether a
>cygwin build will expose the same problems.

we will see...

Best regards,
Klaus

>
> Thanks for the report!
> Klaus
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Aichner
> To: Berndl, Klaus
> Cc: XEmacs Beta List
> Sent: 5/17/2004 11:26 PM
> Subject: ecb-activate renders my 21.5-b17+ XEmacs useless
>
>
> Hello Klaus,
>
> ECB works fine in 21.4.15 native Windows.
>
> I plan on using it more in the future.
>
> However in 21.5-b17 it sends my
> XEmacs 21.5  (beta17) "chayote" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32, Mule) of Sat
May
> 08 2004 on D5DC120J
> cpu-bound!
>
> This time I have set
> toggle-debug-on-signal
> and
> toggle-debug-on-quit
> before
> M-x ecb-activate
>
> Here is what I got for backtraces on the 1. and 2. try of
ecb-activate:
>
>  <<ecb-activate-21.5-b17.txt>>  
> <<ecb-activate-21.5-b17-eieio-defclass.txt>>  <<ATT171857.ATT>>  
> <<eieio-el-loading-21.5-b17-eieio-defclass.txt>>  
> <<eieio.el-loading-21.5-b17-wrong-type-argument.txt>>
<<ATT171858.ATT>>
>  <<ecb-activate-ctrl-g-21.5-b17.txt.gz>>  <<ATT171859.ATT>> 
>

-- 
Adrian Aichner
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