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. You mean you do `rm -rf $prefix/xemacs-21.1.*' after every build, or that it doesn't exist? In my case, it doesn't exist. I guess that wasn't clear. Interestingly enough, I just discovered that even though XEmacs gets very upset about non-existence of the emacs-root under $prefix, it uses movemail from the build hierarchy. If that generalizes to the other directories, there won't be any problems. Hmm ... the following still doesn't work right (I get errors about "Symbol's function definition is void: custom-set-faces" loading .emacs; -vanilla does get rid of that, I haven't tested to see what else might be bogus) but it shuts up the complaints about "Couldn't find obvious defaults": mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/xemacs-21.1.10/{etc,i686-pc-linux,info,lisp} touch /usr/local/lib/xemacs-21.1.10/lisp/auto-autoloads.el Here's the -debug-paths output (not -vanilla): emacs-roots: ("/usr/local/") configure-package-path: nil early-packages and early-package-load-path: ("/home/steve/.xemacs/") nil late-packages and late-package-load-path: ("/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/") ("/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/edict/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/egg-its/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/leim/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/locale/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/lookup/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/mule-base/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/skk/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/Sun/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/ada/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/apel/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/bbdb/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/c-support/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/calc/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/calendar/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/cc-mode/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/cookie/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/crisp/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/debug/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/dired/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/edebug/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/ediff/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/edit-utils/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/edt/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/efs/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/elib/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/emerge/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/eterm/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/eudc/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/footnote/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/forms/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/frame-icon/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/fsf-compat/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/games/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/gnats/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/gnus/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/hm--html-menus/" "/usr/local/lib/ xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/igrep/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/ilisp/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/ispell/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/jde/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/mail-lib/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/mailcrypt/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/mew/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/mh-e/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/mine/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/misc-games/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/net-utils/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/os-utils/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/pc/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/pcl-cvs/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/prog-modes/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/ps-print-nomule/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/psgml/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/reftex/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/rmail/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/scheme/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/sgml/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/sh-script/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/slider/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/sounds-au/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/sounds-wav/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/speedbar/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/strokes/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/supercite/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/texinfo/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/text-modes/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/textools/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/time/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/tm/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/tooltalk/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/tpu/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/vc/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/vc-cc/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/vhdl/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-pac kages/lisp/view-process/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/viper/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/vm/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/w3/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/xemacs-base/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/xemacs-devel/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/zenirc/") last-packages and last-package-load-path: nil nil lisp-directory: nil Info-directory-list: ("/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/info/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/info/" "/usr/info") exec-directory: nil exec-path: ("/usr/local/bin/" "/usr/bin/" "/bin/" "/usr/bin/X11/" "/usr/games/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lib-src/") doc-directory: nil data-directory: "/usr/local/etc/" data-directory-list: ("/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/etc/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/etc/app-defaults/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/etc/mule/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/etc/mule-doc/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/etc/skk/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/etc/start-files/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/auctex/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/bbdb/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/e/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/ediff/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/frame-icon/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/gnats/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/gnus/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/gnusrefcard/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/hm--html-menus/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/jde/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/message/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/mew/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/mine/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/psgml/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/slider/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/smilies/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/sounds/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/time/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/vm/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/w3/" "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/zenirc/" "/usr/local/etc/") WARNING: Couldn't find obvious defaults for: doc-directory exec-directory lisp-directory Perhaps some directories don't exist, or the XEmacs executable, /home/steve/Projects/XEmacs/Builds/21.1/src/xemacs is in a strange place? -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."