Re: [issue] XEmacs 21.5 can't find packages

I see two ways to go here. Mike used to argue that if XEmacs does not build in knowledge of $prefix, the package root should be the same as the installation root. In that case, since I'm running in place, Installation is actually lying about where it will find the packages. (And I bet it would get it wrong for an installed XEmacs unless it were installed in /usr/local/{bin,etc,lib,share}, but --with-prefix=no is precisely intended to make no such promises.) If that's the way we're going to go, we need to fix Installation (ie, configure's reporting function). Personally I prefer to think of the packages as a quasi-independent project, so the package installation has a root of its own. It would be convenient if XEmacs respected its promise in Installation and looked for packages there. But I suspect that would make things more complicated for users who really want to install XEmacs and the packages as a single self-contained bundle. What does everybody think?