Re: [Bug: 21.4.18] site-lisp not in load-path
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
More specifically, it's deprecated. ./configure --with-site-lisp will
set up your XEmacs to look in $archlibdir/xemacs/site-lisp (or some
such, by default on Unix /usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp I believe).
However, site-lisp is for _libraries_, not _packages_, and it is
simply added to the load-path, it is not searched for packages. That
means that (I conjecture, I don't do Windows so I don't remember the
specifics of the c:\XEmacs layout)
c:\XEmacs\site-lisp\ess.el
will be found, but Rodney's
c:\XEmacs\Packages\site-lisp\ess\lisp\ess.el
will not. That's why it's deprecated---it mostly doesn't do what you want.
Probably more than you wanted to know :-), but HTH.
Hi Stephen:
You lost me about 3 sentences into your other post, so I won't comment
on that
one. However, I think this post is not correct: site-lisp/ess/lisp is
added to the
load-path in 21.5. What I was missing is that this is a configure
option. So,
can we get 21.4 built for the Windows installer with this option turned on?
Thanks,
Rodney