Re: [Q] Re: [PATCH] Autoload in eshell needed by ecb

(Moved to xemacs-beta). Ville Skyttä <scop(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Good point. That works, but instead try the following recipe: cd packages cvs update -dP make distclean autoloads cd xemacs-packages/eshell make bindist cd ../ecb make bindist Here's what I see on the ecb 'make bindist': xemacs -no-autoloads -batch -l /home/acs/tst-packages/packages/package-compile.el -- xemacs-base semantic eieio fsf-compat edit-utils jde mail-lib eshell ediff xemacs-devel speedbar -- -l overlay -l compile -l timer -l ecb-util -l ecb-eshell -l ecb-layout -l tree-buffer -l esh-mode -l em-dirs -l jde-help -l semantic -l semantic-load -l semanticdb -l sendmail -l ediff-init -f batch-byte-compile ecb-compilation.el Loading /usr/local/xemacs/lib/xemacs-21.4.10/lisp/auto-autoloads... Loading /home/acs/tst-packages/packages/xemacs-packages/speedbar/auto-autoloads... Loading /home/acs/tst-packages/packages/xemacs-packages/xemacs-devel/auto-autoloads... Loading /home/acs/tst-packages/packages/xemacs-packages/ediff/auto-autoloads... Loading /home/acs/tst-packages/packages/xemacs-packages/eshell/auto-autoloads... Loading /home/acs/tst-packages/packages/xemacs-packages/mail-lib/auto-autoloads... Loading /home/acs/tst-packages/packages/xemacs-packages/jde/lisp/auto-autoloads... Loading /home/acs/tst-packages/packages/xemacs-packages/edit-utils/auto-autoloads... Loading /home/acs/tst-packages/packages/xemacs-packages/fsf-compat/auto-autoloads... Loading /home/acs/tst-packages/packages/xemacs-packages/eieio/auto-autoloads... Loading /home/acs/tst-packages/packages/xemacs-packages/semantic/auto-autoloads... Loading /home/acs/tst-packages/packages/xemacs-packages/xemacs-base/auto-autoloads... # bind ( stack-trace-on-signal debug-on-signal stack-trace-on-error debug-on-error) signal(void-variable (eshell-directory-name)) # bind (data error-symbol) signal-error(void-variable (eshell-directory-name)) # bind (error-data) normal-top-level() # (condition-case ... . error) # (catch top-level ...) Symbol's value as variable is void: eshell-directory-name xemacs exiting . make: *** [ecb-compilation.elc] Error 255 Which is why I added an autoload cookie to eshell. I don't really understand why running 'make bindist' in eshell should make a difference, but it does. Puzzled, Vin