Re: My XEmacs can't find its packages
Hi, Sean.
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 04:35:08PM -0400, Sean MacLennan wrote:
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:22:27 +0000
Alan Mackenzie <acm(a)muc.de> wrote:
> My XEmacs cannot find its packages.
> o - I configured the XEmacs build with a bare
"./configure".
> o - I ran "make install" as root, which moved the program to
> /usr/local/bin/xemacs.
> o - I put the sumo tarball in /usr/local/lib/xemacs as instructed by
> the FM and gunzipped and tar -xf'd it there.
> o - load-path is ("/usr/local/share/xemacs/site-lisp/"
> "/usr/local/share/xemacs-21.5-b31/lisp/")
> Why does this not work? Why can I not find the name of the
variable
> holding the pertinent directory?
> Why can I find no documentation about how the package system
works?
> I've tried C-h v'ing just about every variable starting
"package-",
> and none of them fits the bill. Why does the doc string for
> packages-load-path-depth not mention where it is going deep from?
> This is frustrating.
> Thanks in advance for the help.
I believe xemacs-beta expects the sumo to be
in /usr/local/share/xemacs. The stable release
uses /usr/local/lib/xemacs.
OK, that sorted it, thanks! I suppose the idea is for developers to have
both a "released" version and a "beta" version of the packages at the
same time.
Cheers,
Sean
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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