Re: Unable to enable unicode support

|--==> "JL" == James LewisMoss <dres(a)lewismoss.org&gt; writes: SY> James, can you send me a copy of your "ad-hoc" system? I can see SY> if it's missing anything. But if I were you I'd... JL> It basically consists of doing one of three things: JL> 1) If a Makefile was distributed in the package use it (often with a JL> few minor changes). I don't think there are any packages in this category are there? JL> 2) If it doesn't compile with 3 add a script that seems to compile JL> things ok (the only cases so far are the one starting this JL> conversation (unicode compile) and a few packages that seem to JL> prefer that their file get compiled separately (calc) or need a JL> particular file loaded first (can't remember example)). JL> 3) Run xemacs -batch -f batch-byte-compile *.el (I'm doing this from JL> memory so ignore any mistakes). Both of these seem very prone to danger. We go to fair lengths with setting up the build environment for building packages. In a nutshell, the safest way to build packages is from within a _complete_ packages CVS tree. SJT> Use the CVS checked-out source. SY> The Steves are in agreement. :-) JL> This seems a reasonable choice. I'll look into doing this. Actually JL> it'd be nice to be able to do it more often than sumos come out. Well when I've got my act together I do make public package releases between Sumos. Subscribe to xemacs-announce, any announcement that I send there is for stuff that's going public (ie, not Pre-Release). JL> The only thing that makes me nervous about this is getting JL> something I shouldn't and distributing it in debian and the JL> problems getting to you rather than me. What do you do to combat this now? JL> Is there a cvs tag I can look at across each package that means JL> stable? Whenever I release a package I tag CVS. For example: vm-7.07-pkg.tar.gz has the tag vm-7_07 gnus-1.61-pkg.tar.gz has the tag gnus-1_61 JL> Oh by the way when compiling the mule-ucs stuff I found a typo in JL> uethiopian in the provides line. OK, thanks for letting us know. Steve T, would you like me to take care of this? -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 10D5C9C5>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|