Re: partial success with beta19++

Jeff Miller writes: now i have some more info... 1. the offending command is isssued by the top level (GNU)Makefile lisp/finder-inf.el: ＠echo "Building finder database ..." ＠(cd ./lisp; \ ${blddir}/src/${PROGNAME} -batch -vanilla \ -eval '(setq finder-compile-keywords-quiet t)' \ -l finder -f finder-compile-keywords ) ＠echo "Building finder database ...(done)" i ran it directly, without the quiet option, like this % cd lisp; ../src/xemacs -batch -vanilla -l finder -f finder-compile-keywords Processing _pkg.el ... Processing tex-site.el ... Processing auto-autoloads.el ... Processing expect.el ... Processing mailcrypt.el ... Processing mc-gpg.el ... Processing mc-pgp.el ... Processing mc-pgp5.el ... Processing mc-remail.el ... Processing mc-setversion.el ... Processing mc-toplev.el ... Processing arc-mode.el ... Processing background.el ... Processing crypt.el ... Processing custom-load.el ... Processing ftelnet.el ... Processing inf-lisp.el ... Processing jka-compr.el ... Processing kermit.el ... Processing ledit.el ... Processing lpr.el ... Processing rlogin.el ... Processing spell.el ... Processing ssh.el ... Processing tar-mode.el ... Processing telnet.el ... Processing terminal.el ... Processing uncompress.el ... Processing ps-print.el ... Processing ps-swapper.el ... Processing .#finder-inf.el ... xemacs exiting.Opening input file: \ No such file or directory, /home/jim/src/xemacs/lisp/.#finder-inf.el % out of inspiration, i tried also % cd src ; ../src/xemacs -batch -vanilla -l finder -f finder-compile-keywordsProcessing _pkg.el ... Processing tex-site.el ... Processing auto-autoloads.el ... ... Processing win32-win.el ... Processing wyse50.el ... Processing xterm.el ... Wrote /home/jim/src/xemacs/src/finder-inf.el % then i copied finder-ind.el to ../lisp, cd to the top level, and finally "make install" worked without a glitch interesting?