Re: problem building build package from cvs

PB> i am running XEmacs 21.4.9RC1 on FreeBSD 4.6 FreeBSD is known to require you to fiddle with your Local.rules a bit. gnu cp accepts -a as an alias for -dpR (don't follow symlinks, preserve file attributes, recursively copy directories and be smart about copying special files). -f means force unlink before copying over a file. There's an RCOPY definition in Local.rules for this particular one, which for non-GNU systems seems to recommend -pR. You may find other things you want to tweak (eg, don't *BSDs use a non-GNU tar?) If so, tell Steve Y for inclusion in Local.rules.template. PB> note i had to use gmake to even get this far the std FreeBSD PB> make didnt work at all Yup. Ask Steve Y about future plans, but the package build process has always required GNU make. Portable Makefiles are annoying. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py