make fails

[BillWeld]

$ make
********************* VERSIONS **************************
GNU Emacs 27.2
ESS 24.01.1
ESSR 1.8
*********************************************************
make -C lisp all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/fatkat/ess-24.01.1/lisp'
test -f ../etc/.IS.RELEASE || wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-emacs/master/julia-mode.el > julia-mode.el
test -f ../etc/.IS.RELEASE || wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-emacs/master/julia-mode-latexsubs.el > julia-mode-latexsubs.el
Computing dependencies
sed: can't read julia-mode-latexsubs.el: No such file or directory
emacs -batch -Q  --directory . --directory ./obsolete -f batch-byte-compile ess-julia.el
emacs -batch -Q  --directory . --directory ./obsolete -f batch-byte-compile ess-trns.el
emacs -batch -Q  --directory . --directory ./obsolete -f batch-byte-compile ess-rdired.el
emacs -batch -Q  --directory . --directory ./obsolete -f batch-byte-compile ess-inf.el
emacs -batch -Q  --directory . --directory ./obsolete -f batch-byte-compile ess-r-package.el
emacs -batch -Q  --directory . --directory ./obsolete -f batch-byte-compile ess.el
emacs -batch -Q  --directory . --directory ./obsolete -f batch-byte-compile ess-bugs-d.el
emacs -batch -Q  --directory . --directory ./obsolete -f batch-byte-compile ess-site.el
emacs -batch -Q  --directory . --directory ./obsolete -f batch-byte-compile ess-mode.el
emacs -batch -Q  --directory . --directory ./obsolete -f batch-byte-compile ess-help.el
emacs -batch -Q --directory . --directory ./obsolete -f batch-byte-compile julia-mode.el

In toplevel form:
julia-mode.el:40:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, julia-mode-latexsubs
make[1]: *** [julia-mode.elc] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/fatkat/ess-24.01.1/lisp'
make: *** [lisp] Error 2

[mmaechler]

I guess it was just a "network" problem aka "internet connection" problem, i.e., the github server not "answering" correctly to the wget request?

You can always repeat it manually, and it does work for me:

wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-emacs/master/julia-mode-latexsubs.el > julia-mode-latexsubs.el
ls -l julia-*.el

giving

-rw-r-----. 1 maechler .... 453307 Jun  7 09:30 julia-mode-latexsubs.el

for me, at the moment.

And: You are only seeing this, when not installing from an ESS tarball (https://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=download)
or even more recommended and easily:

just get the ess emacs package from the default emacs package server ELPA ( https://elpa.gnu.org : ELPA -- GNU Emacs Lisp Package Archive ) .. even though at the moment, our manual still mentions MELPA (and MELPA stable) only which needs very slightly more work than ELPA for which you can basically just evaluate the following lisp code to get ESS (and polymode etc for *.,Rnw and *.Rmd i.e. Sweave and Rmarkdown etc):

(package-install 'ess)
(package-install 'poly-R)

[BillWeld]

Thanks! The build works now starting with the current zip file and without any messing with it. I don't think the problem was a network error though because it persisted over multiple attempts. I agree that the emacs package manager is a better way to get ESS and that works great.

[mmaechler]

I guess it was just a "network" problem aka "internet connection" problem, i.e., the github server not "answering" correctly to the wget request?

You can always repeat it manually, and it does work for me:

wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-emacs/master/julia-mode-latexsubs.el > julia-mode-latexsubs.el
ls -l julia-*.el

giving

-rw-r-----. 1 maechler .... 453307 Jun  7 09:30 julia-mode-latexsubs.el

for me, at the moment.

And: You are only seeing this, when not installing from an ESS tarball (https://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=download)
or even more recommended and easily:

just get the ess emacs package from the default emacs package server ELPA ( https://elpa.gnu.org : ELPA -- GNU Emacs Lisp Package Archive ) .. even though at the moment, our manual still mentions MELPA (and MELPA stable) only which needs very slightly more work than ELPA for which you can basically just evaluate the following lisp code to get ESS (and polymode etc for *.,Rnw and *.Rmd i.e. Sweave and Rmarkdown etc):

(package-install 'ess)
(package-install 'poly-R)