Re: 21.5 maybe not finding package roots? [was: Byte-compiler tests fail]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: Hi! Ah, haven't known that. Thanks for the pointer. It looks strange..... I've got /sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs as product of a make install out of xemacs-packages Local.rules define XEMACS_STAGING = /sw/i386_fbsd3/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages MULE_STAGING = /sw/i386_fbsd3/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages Now, the paths look like /usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs/src $ ./xemacs --debug-paths emacs-roots: ("/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs/" "/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/") configure-package-path: nil early-packages and early-package-load-path: nil nil late-packages and late-package-load-path: ("/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/" "/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs-packages/" "/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs-packages/comm/" "/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs-packages/games/" "/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs-packages/libs/" "/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs-packages/mule/" "/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs-packages/oa/" "/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs-packages/os/" "/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs-packages/prog/" "/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs-packages/wp/") ("/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/" "/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/edict/" "/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/egg-its/" "/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/leim/" "/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/locale/" "/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/lookup/" "/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/mule-base/" "/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/skk/") last-packages and last-package-load-path: nil nil lisp-directory: "/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs/lisp/" mule-lisp-directory: "/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs/lisp/mule/" Info-directory-list: ("/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs/info/" "/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/info/" "/usr/local/info" "/usr/share/info") exec-directory: /usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs/lib-src/ exec-path: ("/usr/users/support/nk/bin/" "/client/bin/" "/usr/local/bin/" "/bin/" "/usr/bin/" "/usr/X11R6/bin/" "/prj/bin/" "/client/sbin/" "/sbin/" "/usr/sbin/" "/etc/" "/bin/" "/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs/lib-src/") doc-directory: "/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs/lib-src/" data-directory: "/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs/etc/" data-directory-list: ("/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/etc/" "/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/etc/app-defaults/" "/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/etc/mule/" "/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/etc/mule-doc/" "/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/etc/skk/" "/sw/i386_fbsd4/xemacs-21.5/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/etc/start-files/" "/usr/users/support/nk/cvs/xemacs/etc/") It's funny, the mule-packages lie in the destination emacs-root, while the xemacs-packages are found in the source emacs-root. Hmm, strange, well for me, that is. As Steve has pointed out, I would also have thought that the checks run without any packages installed, because this inherently causes a first installation of the xemacs core to fail. norbert.