Re: --pkgdir and --package-path

Ville> On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:22, Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] wrote: >> >> Ville> Hmm, while looking at the newest RH Rawhide XEmacs RPM, I noticed that Ville> they had tried to use --pkgdir (and failed). AFAICT, that's not used, Ville> and can be safely removed since lispdir gets set to the same value in Ville> configure and thus it's mkdir'd anyway in Makefile (mkdir). I'll send a Ville> patch against 21.5 and 21.4 if this is correct. Ville> Any comments on this? Well, --pkgdir is purely historical, and thus, any use of it in modern-day incarnations is probably a mistake. Ville> It seems I got confused tracking where the value of the given Ville> package-path is split into "parts", ie. the split on '::', and whether Ville> it really uses '::' on all platforms. If it does, the docs are ok. It probably doesn't. But somebody else argued that it's better to leave that part alone. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla