Re: INSTALL from sources
Hi, Mats.
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 03:56:03PM +0200, Mats Lidell wrote:
>>>>> Alan Mackenzie <acm(a)muc.de> writes:
> Er, yes, that's precisely what I'm doing. This should
work, surely?
I'm afraid not. The layout of the installed packages, that XEmacs
is
looking for, is not the same as the layout for the package sources.
<sigh>
> At the moment, there are only .el files in these directories.
Will
> this prevent XEmacs from recognising the directories as `load-path'
> components?
No it is not that the elc-files are missing. As I get it there is no
way that the sources can be used directly the way you are trying. (But
this is Lisp so there might be some magic I have missed. Have been
byte compiling the sources to long for thinking of any alternatives
;-)
> What does "install" mean? It means, primarily, that
files get copied to
> /usr/local/share/.... So why would /usr/local/share/.... work, but my
> source directory not? I'll try compiling all the packages and see if
> that makes a difference.
Install mean that the packages are byte compiled and installed in
another location than the sources. The file "Local.rules" controls the
details. Read the "INSTALL" file in the root of the package sources
for how to configure the build.
I'm part way there. I'm getting an error [2] from make. I'll get it
sorted out sometime.
Presumably after each little change to my (package-)source code, I'll
need to do a 'make install' to test it. Or would it be better to put the
source code directly under the install directory?
This is a real time sink, for both of us. Thanks for the help.
Yours
--
%% Mats
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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