Re: elc-files in distribution tar-ball can break build

Agreed. Removing the elc-files is just fix that does not solve the general problem that the you should be able to reconfigure and just make and get a proper result. I don't know if there is some way to tie a (re)configure to some action or if some state-file with whether last build was a mule-build or not is the way to go. Suggestions are welcome. I'm afraid that the problem is worse than that. It seems like that during the build the load of startup.el changes the path so that the build after that starts to load from /usr/share/xemacs-21.5-b33/lisp/... ouch! Excerpt from build log: Loading /var/tmp/portage/app-editors/xemacs-21.5.33/work/xemacs-21.5.33/lisp/modeline.elc... Loading /var/tmp/portage/app-editors/xemacs-21.5.33/work/xemacs-21.5.33/lisp/cus-file.elc... Loading /var/tmp/portage/app-editors/xemacs-21.5.33/work/xemacs-21.5.33/lisp/startup.elc... Loading /usr/share/xemacs-21.5-b33/lisp/misc.elc... Loading /usr/share/xemacs-21.5-b33/lisp/loadhist.elc... Loading /usr/share/xemacs-21.5-b33/lisp/files.elc... ... Scary isn't it. During the build of the binary we should only load files from the sources and not look around in what is installed on the machine, right? Suggestions are welcome on how to solve this. Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta