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In XEmacs 21.4 (patch 4) "Artificial Intelligence" [Lucid] (i386-redhat-linux, Mule) of Tue Jul 31 2001 on delenn.ultra.csn.tu-chemnitz.de configured using `configure i386-redhat-linux --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --datadir=/usr/lib --libdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --dynamic '--cflags=-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686' --debug=no --error-checking=none --with-menubars=lucid --with-scrollbars=lucid --with-dialogs=lucid --infodir=/usr/share/info/ --with-mule --with-xfs --with-xim --with-gif --with-site-lisp=no --with-toolbars=yes --without-gnome --with-ipv6-cname=no --with-sound=esd,nonative' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: While rebuilding xemacs from scratch when the same version is already installed, the build fails with: | $ make | ... | Loading /var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/dumped-lisp.el... | rm -f ../lib-src/DOC; \ | ./temacs -nd -batch -l /var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/src/../lisp/make-docfile.el -- \ | -o ../lib-src/DOC -d /var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/src -i ../lib-src/../site-packages \ | abbrev.c alloc.c blocktype.c buffer.c bytecode.c callint.c callproc.c casefiddle.c casetab.c chartab.c cmdloop.c cmds.c console.c console-stream.c data.c device.c dired.c doc.c doprnt.c dynarr.c editfns.c elhash.c emacs.c eval.c events.c filelock.c unexelf.c balloon_help.c balloon-x.c eldap.c postgresql.c dgif_lib.c gif_io.c menubar.c scrollbar.c dialog.c toolbar.c menubar-x.c scrollbar-x.c dialog-x.c toolbar-x.c gui-x.c mule.c mule-ccl.c mule-charset.c file-coding.c input-method-motif.c realpath.c inline.c esd.c miscplay.c console-tty.c device-tty.c event-tty.c frame-tty.c objects-tty.c redisplay-tty.c cm.c terminfo.c gpmevent.c event-unixoid.c database.c sysdll.c emodules.c process-unix.c event-stream.c extents.c faces.c fileio.c filemode.c floatfns.c fns.c font-lock.c frame.c general.c glyphs.c glyphs-eimage.c glyphs-widget.c gui.c gutter.c hash.c imgproc.c indent.c insdel.c intl.c keymap.c line-number.c lread.c lstream.c macros.c marker.c md5.c minibuf.c objects.c opaque.c print.c process.c profile.c rangetab.c redisplay.c redisplay-output.c regex.c search.c select.c signal.c sound.c specifier.c strftime.c symbols.c syntax.c sysdep.c undo.c console-x.c device-x.c event-Xt.c frame-x.c glyphs-x.c objects-x.c redisplay-x.c select-x.c xgccache.c widget.c window.c | | Loading /var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/src/../lisp/make-docfile.el... | Loading very-early-lisp... | Loading find-paths.el... | Loading packages.el... | Loading setup-paths.el... | Loading dump-paths.el... | Loading custom... | Loading widget... | Loading custom ...done | Loading process... | Loading /var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/dumped-lisp.el... | Error: dumped file version.el does not exist | | Error: dumped file paths.el does not exist | | Spawning make-docfile ... | Spawning make-docfile ...done | ./temacs -nd -batch -l /var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/src/../lisp/loadup.el dump | | Loading /var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/src/../lisp/loadup.el... | Using load-path (/var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp) | Using module-load-path (/var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/modules) | Loading very-early-lisp... | Loading /var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/dumped-lisp.el... | Loading /var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/backquote.elc... | Loading /var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/bytecomp-runtime.elc... | Loading /var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/find-paths.elc... (file find-paths.el is newer) | Loading /var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/packages.elc... (file packages.el is newer) | Loading /var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/setup-paths.elc... | Loading /var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/dump-paths.elc... | Loading /usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/subr.elc... | Loading /usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/replace.elc... | Load file version.el: not found | Fatal error during load, aborting | make[1]: *** [xemacs] Error 1 | make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/volatile/tmp/xe/xemacs-21.4.4/src' strace'ing temacs at the first command shows ------------ open("/usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/zenirc/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 open("/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/mule/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 open("/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 open("/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/custom.elc", O_RDONLY) = 6 open("/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/widget.elc", O_RDONLY) = 8 open("/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/process.elc", O_RDONLY) = 6 open("/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/dumped-lisp.el", O_RDONLY) = 6 ------------ When renaming/removing the /usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.4 directory all things are fine and strace tells ------------ open("/usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/zenirc/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 open("/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/mule/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 open("/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 open("/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/custom.elc", O_RDONLY) = 6 open("/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/widget.elc", O_RDONLY) = 8 open("/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/process.elc", O_RDONLY) = 6 open("/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/dumped-lisp.el", O_RDONLY) = 6 ------------ Reason seems to be in `lisp/dump-paths.el'. There is a | (setq lisp-directory (paths-find-lisp-directory roots)) statement which sets lisp-directory to configure-lisp-directory if it exists[1]. Because some files needed by the build-process (e.g. version.el) are not installed there it will fail. I am using the attached patched (inspired by lisp/loadup.el) which fixes it. A second patch is required for the top-level Makefile because the XEmacs being called there has the same wrong load-path and will fail to load some `-l...' files. I am not sure if the patches are the best solution; perhaps a more smart one exists. But they are working... ;) Footnotes: [1] see paths-find-emacs-directory in find-paths.el Enrico