Fwd: xemacs-base now required to build

My first attempt got spam-trapped... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Vin Shelton" <acs(a)alumni.princeton.edu&gt; Date: Dec 28, 2008 10:36 PM Subject: xemacs-base now required to build To: "XEmacs Beta" <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org&gt; Greetings - In the process of generating the 21.4.22 release, I realized that the xemacs-base package is now required to build xemacs-21.4, because of these lines in lisp/autoload.el: (defvar autoload-make-autoload-operators '(defun define-skeleton defmacro define-derived-mode define-generic-mode easy-mmode-define-minor-mode easy-mmode-define-global-mode define-minor-mode defun* defmacro*) "`defun'-like operators that use `autoload' to load the library.") (defvar autoload-make-autoload-complex-operators '(easy-mmode-define-minor-mode easy-mmode-define-global-mode define-minor-mode) "`defun'-like operators to macroexpand before using `autoload'.") easy-mmode comes from xemacs-base, and if you try to build xemacs-21.4 without an xemacs-base package, you get this error: Building finder database ...(done) rm -f lisp/auto-autoloads.el /home/acs/xemacs-21.4-2008-12-28/src/xemacs -batch -no-autoloads \ -l autoload -f batch-update-directory lisp Cannot open load file: easy-mmode xemacs exiting . make: *** [lisp/auto-autoloads.el] Error 255 21.5 doesn't have this problem because there's a copy of easy-mmode.el in lisp. What do you think is the right solution to this? Should we accept the limitation that xemacs-base is required in order to build 21.4 and document it somehow in INSTALL? (... patches welcome). Should I copy a version of easy-mmode.el into lisp/? (Yuck) Please send your thoughts to the list. Regards, Vin _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta