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Asked: 2026-05-30T08:08:57+00:00

I have Emacs Starter Kit installed. When I try to install and run ECB

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I have Emacs Starter Kit installed. When I try to install and run ECB it does not work.
What is wrong? How to make ECB work with Emacs Starter Kit?

ECB installation

I’ve tried two ways:

  1. Adding ecb to my-packages list as described here
  2. Installing ecb with list-packages command

Both ways give the same result. During the installation I got a lot of warnings like

In ecb-test-with-original-advice-set:
ecb-advice-test.el:122:16:Warning: reference to free variable `ecb-version'

In ecb-analyse-jump-to-tag:
ecb-analyse.el:443:24:Warning: `interactive-p' is an obsolete function (as of
23.2); use `called-interactively-p' instead.

Total size of the file is 807 lines and I don’t know how to add it here keeping the post readable 🙂

ECB usage

When I try to start ECB by adding (require 'ecb)
to ~/.emacs.d/$USER.el the following error occurs at Emacs start:

File error: Cannot open load file, ecb

The variable load-path does not contain the path to ecb files. When I start Emacs without (require 'ecb) there is no errors and load-path do contain the string
"/home/maksim/.emacs.d/elpa/ecb-2.40". Adding the following line

(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/elpa/ecb-2.40"))

makes Emacs start without errors, but ECB still not work and ecb-activate acts in the way described below.

If I try to start ECB by calling ecb-activate I see the following in the *Messages* buffer:

ECB 2.40 uses CEDET 1.0 (contains semantic 2.0, eieio 1.3, speedbar <unknown
version>).
ecb-activate-internal: Symbol's value as variable is void: stack-trace-on-error

If I add the following line to ~/.emacs.d/$USER.el

(setq stack-trace-on-error t)

then ecb-activate responds the following

ECB 2.40 uses CEDET 1.0 (contains semantic 2.0, eieio 1.3, speedbar <unknown
version>).
All requirements for ECB 2.40 fulfilled - Enjoy it!
The ECB is now deactivated.
ecb-clean-up-after-activation-failure: ECB 2.40: Errors during the basic setup
of ECB. (error-type: void-function, error-data:
(ecb-enable-own-temp-buffer-show-futition))

Version information

  • GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.0)
    of 2011-12-06 on pluot, modified by Debian
  • emacs-starter-kit 2.0.3
  • ecb 2.40
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  1. Editorial Team

    I was having the same problems as you, I’ve just solved it, here are my specs:

    • GNU Emacs 24.0.93.1 (I’m using the snapshot gtk version on Ubuntu 11.10)
    • starter-kit 2.0.3
    • CEDET 1.0pre7 (it’s the built-in)
    • latest ECB from CVS repo (http://ecb.cvs.sourceforge.net/ecb/ecb/)

    Plus I’ve did as @user1150335 said with the version number I did not need to change the version number as @user1150335 said. Let me know if I’ve missed something or you need something more about the configuration.

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