SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
>
> >>>>>> "Jens" == Jens Lautenbacher <jens(a)tellux.de> writes:
> Jens> Sorry if this is a faq or plain stupid, but I simply seem to
> Jens> be unable to get an xemacs-21 beta working...
>
> > I'm not all that surprised; the install process is in flux, big-time
> > right now, especially with respect to packages.
>
> Hopefully things will be slowing down now. The mechanics of it all
> are working quite well based on the testing I've been doing of it.
>
> Jens> After a long time I want to again work a bit with xemacs,
> Jens> and so I decided to get a new package enabled xemacs-21. I
> Jens> downloadded the cvs xemacs-20 and xemacs-packages.
>
> CVS'ing packages is the hard way. Download the `binary' tarballs from
> the FTP site for a first installation. Figure out where your packages
> should be ($prefix/lib/xemacs/packages, $prefix/lib/xemacs/mule-packages)
> and untar the packages you want there.
OK, with Stephen's help I got it going.... My problem was that I
didn't realize that under the package hirarchy there's only one etc,
lisp and info dir allowed... I was under the impression that a link to
the cvs tree of xemacs-packages from (refix)/lib/xemacs/packages would
be enough...
It was a bit stupid to realize how to install of the compiled lisp
from the cvs tree there without doing too much work by hand, but a
make bindist with the directory redirected to the packages dir
helped... I simply ditched the tar files after that :-)
Maybe it would help to have the information somewhere HOW the packages
tree is supposed to look (or is it somewhere?). Or something in the
cvs tree for those people who want to go that way.
jtl