Re: Emacs 26.3 strange ESS init error regarding Projectile and project root.

[Philip Kaludercic]

Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster@gmail.com> writes:

> "So try M-x package-reinstall ess M-x package-reinstall project"
>
> You mean reinstall ESS and projectile?

That should be the easiest solution. And I don't think that projectile
should be to blame here, this is related to project.el, the built-in
package.

> Should I force bytecode re-compilation,
> ie: M-x byte-recompile-directory <ess-directory> M-x
> byte-recompile-directory <projectile-directory>
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 6:16 AM Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
>
>> Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I have both ESS and projectile installed and I have projectile mode on by
>> > default.
>> >
>> > From my init.el file:
>> >
>> > ;; Load projectile
>> > (use-package projectile
>> >   :ensure t
>> >   :config
>> >   (define-key projectile-mode-map (kbd "C-x p") 'projectile-command-map)
>> >   (projectile-mode +1))
>> >
>> > Recently (as of about 1 day ago), emacs has been giving me this error
>> > when call (require 'ess-site) in my ESS-init.el file, or whenever I try
>> to
>> > open an interactive R session via M-x R
>> >
>> > "project-root is already defined as something else than a generic
>> function."
>>
>> project-root should be unrelated to projectile, what is going on is that
>> somehow a regular function is being defined, that is generating a
>> conflict with project-root, the generic function.
>>
>> I had an issue similar to this just yesterday, and while I did not quite
>> understand what caused it, it seems that reinstalling the packages
>> and/or forcing the bytecode to regenerate fixed it.
>>
>> So try M-x package-reinstall ess M-x package-reinstall project
>>
>> --
>>         Philip K.
>>

-- 
        Philip K.