Re: XEmacs 21.5.27 "fiddleheads" is released.

Neal> I found [--with-system-packages] non-obvious. Well, it's pretty new, refactoring --package-path and --package-prefix (--package-prefix was removed, actually). That was late last year. Neal> I thought maybe I needed --package-path. More effort, more ways to go wrong, hard to imagine it being useful, actually. Neal> Also, the current Fedora xemacs package uses Neal> --datadir=/usr/share (that's where I got it). *shrug* Some people take the FHS too literally. I'm sure it can be done, but it isn't worth the work for anybody but a major distribution package maintainer. It's not really any cleaner, since the Lisp code is generally loaded at build time; I know I've been confused on any number of occasions because the source code I'm looking at in the buffer is different from the preloaded version that is producing the behavior. And anyway we need the .../lib/xemacs-$VERSION directory for version-specific binaries, at least on some architectures. I guess you could get some space saving (about 25MB in the lisp, and another 20MB in Unicode tables) if your core code is being served from a file server supporting several architectures, but does anybody really care about that anymore? Neal> Is there a test suite to run? `make check'. It should give you something like six or eight expected "KNOWN BUG" failures in the regex test suite. Anything else is a new bug, please report it. Neal> ./configure '--prefix=/usr' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' Neal> '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--mandir=/usr/share/man/man1' Neal> '--with-docdir=/usr/lib64/xemacs-21.5.27/doc' '--with-xft' Neal> '--with-system-packages=/usr/share/xemacs' --with-xft currently doesn't work. You need the syntax --with-xft=emacs,tabs,gauges,menubars to get an Xft build with all the trimmings (more refactoring in progress, we're trying to standardize sets of related features like that, but programming autoconf macros is an exercise in masochism...). -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.