Re: [Bug: 21.5-b27] startup.el "borks" filepath?
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
OK, I've replicated this. I set up an empty install directory
in
~/usr/local, configured --with-prefix=yes --prefix=~/usr/local, set
EMACSDEBUGPATHS=YesPlease, then ran make; make install. I can see
startup.el change the lisp-directory from the run-in-place
lisp-directory to the installed lisp-directory, which doesn't exist
yet. The first time through, this doesn't happen until make install,
but once the directories have been created, an ordinary make will
cause the problem at loadup.el.
Darn. I can't reproduce it. On which step in the sequence exactly
does it fail?
It looks like the installation code creates this directory, then
when
we get to the point of reloading XEmacs pre-installation,
`paths-for-each-emacs-directory' will find configure-lisp-directory,
and use that as the preferred value even though it's not yet
installed. Worse, for some reason it doesn't find any run-in-place
lisp.
You're right in that you shouldn't have `configure-lisp-directory' set
to anything. Do you? (Robert, do you?)
I suspect that this is in part happening because autoconf has
decided
to force datadir to be in ${prefix}/share and the logic we use to
determine whether configure-lisp-directory was user-specified doesn't
work right, because it expects datadir to be ${prefix}/lib.
No, we have this totally brain-damaged code:
if test "x$datadir" != 'x${prefix}/share'
then
AC_DEFINE(INFODIR_USER_DEFINED)
AC_DEFINE(LISPDIR_USER_DEFINED)
AC_DEFINE(MODULEDIR_USER_DEFINED)
AC_DEFINE(ETCDIR_USER_DEFINED)
AC_DEFINE(DOCDIR_USER_DEFINED)
AC_DEFINE(ARCHLIBDIR_USER_DEFINED)
else
datadir='${prefix}/lib'
fi
That would set LISPDIR_USER_DEFINED to something if datadir were out
of whack. But as it isn't specified explicitly, it shouldn't. (And
it isn't for me.)
--
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla
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