Re: Unable to enable unicode support

SY> |--==> "JL" == James LewisMoss <dres(a)lewismoss.org&gt; writes: SY> James, can you send me a copy of your "ad-hoc" system? I can see SY> if it's missing anything. But if I were you I'd... JL> It basically consists of doing one of three things: JL> 1) If a Makefile was distributed in the package use it (often JL> with a JL> few minor changes). SY> I don't think there are any packages in this category are there? There are a few with things like Makefile.example. JL> 2) If it doesn't compile with 3 add a script that seems to JL> compile JL> things ok (the only cases so far are the one starting this JL> conversation (unicode compile) and a few packages that seem to JL> prefer that their file get compiled separately (calc) or need a JL> particular file loaded first (can't remember example)). JL> 3) Run xemacs -batch -f batch-byte-compile *.el (I'm doing this JL> from JL> memory so ignore any mistakes). SY> Both of these seem very prone to danger. We go to fair lengths SY> with setting up the build environment for building packages. In SY> a nutshell, the safest way to build packages is from within a SY> _complete_ packages CVS tree. OK. SJT> Use the CVS checked-out source. SY> The Steves are in agreement. :-) JL> This seems a reasonable choice. I'll look into doing this. JL> Actually it'd be nice to be able to do it more often than sumos JL> come out. SY> Well when I've got my act together I do make public package SY> releases between Sumos. Subscribe to xemacs-announce, any SY> announcement that I send there is for stuff that's going public SY> (ie, not Pre-Release). I see them. JL> The only thing that makes me nervous about this is getting JL> something I shouldn't and distributing it in debian and the JL> problems getting to you rather than me. SY> What do you do to combat this now? Only release a new xemacs package when a new sumo comes out. I've been meaning to release for each new set of packages, but it's complex and I haven't found the time to make sure everything works well yet. JL> Is there a cvs tag I can look at across each package that means JL> stable? SY> Whenever I release a package I tag CVS. SY> For example: SY> vm-7.07-pkg.tar.gz has the tag vm-7_07 SY> gnus-1.61-pkg.tar.gz has the tag gnus-1_61 OK. Thanks Jim -- ＠James LewisMoss <dres(a)lewismoss.org&gt; | Blessed Be! ＠ http://www.lewismoss.org/~dres | Linux is kewl! ＠"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach