Re: [Bug: 21.5-b27] startup.el "borks" filepath?

robert delius royar wrote: Robert, I have tried making xemacs with the patched configure.ac file with the following configure options: ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --datarootdir=/opt/local/lib --datadir=/opt/local/lib --infodir=/opt/local/share/info --mandir=/opt/local/share/man --with-site-prefixes=/opt/local --disable-error-checking --with-ldap=no --with-postgresql=no --with-default-eol-detection --without-mule --with-tty --with-ncurses --with-scrollbars=motif --with-dialogs=motif --with-widgets=motif --with-optimization and it still fails at the end with the following error message: Compiling /Users/artemio/Archive/xemacs/xemacs-21.5.27/lisp/custom-load.el... Wrote /Users/artemio/Archive/xemacs/xemacs-21.5.27/lisp/custom-load.elc Building finder database ... rm -f /Users/artemio/Archive/xemacs/xemacs-21.5.27/src/../lisp/finder-inf.el ./xemacs -no-packages -batch -eval "(setq finder-compile-keywords-quiet t)" \ -l finder -f finder-compile-keywords Requiring finder-inf... (file finder-inf.el is newer) xemacs exiting. Buffer is read-only: #<buffer "finder-inf.el">make[1]: *** [/Users/artemio/Archive/xemacs/xemacs-21.5.27/src/../lisp/finder-inf.el] Error 255 make: *** [src] Error 2 Strange thing is finder-inf.el is NOT created at all in /Users/artemio/Archive/xemacs/xemacs-21.5.27/lisp/, and this directory is not write-protected, i.e. imac-g5:~ artemio$ l -d /Users/artemio/Archive/xemacs/xemacs-21.5.27/lisp drwxr-xr-x 414 artemio staff 14076 Nov 25 20:24 /Users/artemio/Archive/xemacs/xemacs-21.5.27/lisp Do you have any idea what could be the problem here? It seems to me that the previous installation of xemacs in /usr/local (with no prefix, but with --with-site-prefixes=/opt/local) may have a lot to do with my problems, but I have no idea why ... Cheers, Artemio _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta