Re: --srcdir and running-in-place

Stephen> (2) building with --srcdir=/coda/XEmacs/21.1, running src/xemacs Stephen> from the build directory or /tmp/XEmacs/Builds/21.1/src/xemacs Stephen> from /coda/XEmacs/21.1 gives ms> I always build like that, and have never had any problems. Steve> You mean you do `rm -rf $prefix/xemacs-21.1.*' after every build, Steve> or that it doesn't exist? In my case, it doesn't exist. I guess that Steve> wasn't clear. Your problem seems to be that you have a configure'd prefix (/usr/local) which, to XEmacs, looks just like an XEmacs hierarchy, at which point is tries to do everything from there. Here's the test code: (defun paths-emacs-root-p (directory) "Check if DIRECTORY is a plausible installation root for XEmacs." (or ;; installed (paths-file-readable-directory-p (paths-construct-path (list directory "lib" emacs-program-name))) ;; in-place or windows-nt (and (paths-file-readable-directory-p (paths-construct-path (list directory "lisp"))) (paths-file-readable-directory-p (paths-construct-path (list directory "etc")))))) What I'm puzzled by is that you don't get the in-place directory in `emacs-roots'. Could you trace (paths-find-emacs-root invocation-directory invocation-name) (`paths-find-emacs-root' is in lisp/find-paths.el.) ... and see why it doesn't return anything? -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla