Re: 21.5b9 on MacOSX build problem

Martin> Adrian Aichner wrote: Martin> Sorry to be somewhat obtuse, but the GNUMakefile is not very Martin> forthcoming about what it is doing. The most probable command executed Martin> is Martin> ./xemacs -batch -f list-load-path-shadows Ah, the file in question is lisp\shadow.el Try putting my variable definitions at the beginning of that one, remove shadow.elc, and run the offending command. Martin> in the src subdirectory. Martin> I don't know how to get a backtrace out of this. If I Martin> execute it by hand in the builddir/src, it gives the same Martin> message and a return code of 255. In fact, any invocation Martin> of this new xemacs with whatever command-line option gives Martin> me the same message Martin> Symbol's value as variable is void: tables Martin> I tried to put -eval '(setq debug-on-error t)' etc on the Martin> command line, but this has no effect. Martin> OTOH, if I rm src/xemacs and then run "make" by hand, it Martin> recreates a new xemacs executable that seems to be Martin> correct, and make goes through to the end without Martin> error. This is really hard to catch <sigh>. Is that new xemacs fully functional? Can you start and use it as expected? Adrian Martin> -- Martin> Martin -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/