Re: tramp Perl remove compilation

[Tom R. <Tom...@nc...>]

Mark Stosberg <ma...@su...> Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:07:50 -0500
> I've now got got tramp installed, but when I use "tramp-compile" and
> specify "perl -cw" as the compile command, it very quickly returns
> "Syntax OK", although the syntax is not. It's rather as if the
> cmmand is being run locally instead of remotely.

Bingo! Two questions:

* Do you have

  (require 'tramp-util)

  in your <.|_>emacs? As stated in

  http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tlroche/plinkTramp.html
> Unfortunately the "native" emacs compile function does not yet
> support remote files. (Supposedly this will change sometime on or
> about GNU Emacs 21.) However, as of at least v2.9, TRAMP does
> support remote compilation. Simply include

> (require 'tramp-util)

> in your Emacs configuration (e.g. in .emacs, after your main
> TRAMP configuration section) and you will be able to do

> M-x tramp-compile

> in a TRAMP buffer. Note that the compile-command you give (or
> that you have defined via a local variable) must be appropriate
> for the target: notably, it must be in the remote session's path.
> If you need to set something in the remote path, use the TRAMP
> variable tramp-remote-path. E.g.

> (add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path "/usr/bin/magic")

> Rather than use tramp-compile directly, you may prefer to make
> your favorite compilation keybinding "tramp-aware"; then you need
> not keep track of whether you're compiling a TRAMP-accessed file
> or not. E.g. for the key Alt-`

> ; "Stefan Monnier" 16 Mar 2001 09:50:19 -0500
> (define-key global-map "\M-`"
>    (lambda ()
>      "Use `tramp-compile' if in a tramp buffer, `compile' otherwise."
>      (interactive)
>      (call-interactively
>       (if (tramp-tramp-file-p buffer-file-name)
>           'tramp-compile 'compile))))

> works for me. 

If none of the above works,

* Which emacs or xemacs are you running? And which version of tramp?
  BTW, as the tramp site says

  http://tramp.sourceforge.net/#Bug%20Reports
> To report a bug in TRAMP, you should execute M-x tramp-bug. This
> will automatically generate a buffer with the details of your system
> and TRAMP version.

HTH, Tom...@nc...