Re: [issue] XEmacs 21.5 can't find packages
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Michael Sperber writes:
> > I guess I'm not clear on what is meant by "relocatable" given
that
> > "run-in-place" works with --with-prefix=yes.
>
> Run-in-place is not the same "relocatable", and there's very
specific
> code to deal with this case.
Sure, but what is the difference? If it can't be explained in words
of one syllable, maybe we should put --with-prefix into an "if you
don't know why you need this, you don't need it" section in the docs.
I'm confused by your confusion: Run-in-place has nothing to do with
"with-prefix", and I don't know why you ever thought so.
> Basically, I believe people should only ever configure
"late", so my
> recommendation would be to get rid of the "early" and "last"
options and
> lose the "late". Acceptable?
So early is *always* user-init-directory? Do we know what that is
early enough for package initialization?
Essentially, yes.
I guess we can lose the "last" option. In practice the
system and
user roots should be enough for anybody. (Or is --with-last-packages
a search path rather than a single directory?) So this seems like a
reasonable simplification to me.
This was originally meant for running the 21.1 in-tree packages with
21.2. (Or something like that.)
How about EMACSPACKAGEPATH? Same syntax and semantacs as
--with-*-packages?
No. Legacy. (I.e. before my time.) It combines all the package paths
into one. Do not use.
--
Regards,
Mike
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