Re: CEDET build help needed

Eric M. Ludlam writes: > Is there a command-line or other setting I can use to disable packages > that are part of an XEmacs install like this so I can effectively run > these tests, or allow users to do an install on top of what is in > XEmacs? I'm not sure what you're asking for; running tests is very different from what users would want. And package installation is a distro issue, we can't control that. You can get rid of autoloads with the --no-autoloads switch, but that doesn't prevent the old packages from appearing in load-path if they are found. It sounds like what you want is for your versions to shadow XEmacs packages distributed by Ubuntu. To do that, you could (1) install them into an XEmacs package hierarchy in ~/.xemacs/ (warning, this may not work on some Windows installations because of the confusion about %HOME% on older Windows systems), (2) manipulate load-path directly, or (3) set up a separate "early" package hierarchy. I'm not sure whether (3) is available at runtime; IIRC in fact ~/.xemacs/ is the only early package hierarchy supported in a default install. It is possible to reconfigure XEmacs for multiple early package hierarchies, but that requires a rebuild. If you want to explore that possibility, read the XEmacs Info node "(xemacs)Startup Paths", first. If you want JDE to use *old* versions while CEDET uses *new* versions, you're out of luck. There is no way to order load-path to make that work.