Eric S. Johansson writes:
would it be of any use if I built under cygwin using the current
document to build instructions?
Yes. More builds are always good. It is not uncommon that identical
builds on apparently identical machines will get different results.
Usually this is due to some behavior of the user, but even then we
often can improve the documentation or sometimes the build
infrastructure based on such reports. There are rapidly diminishing
returns to doing very similar builds, of course, so consider whether
you'd feel your time was wasted if ten times in a row you had no
problems.:-)
Also would I need to remove the current packaged xemacs
before installing the test one?
No. You can always run XEmacs whereever it was built. I suggest you
incorporate that information in a symlink or batchfile or script
somewhere on your PATH rather than adding XEmacs's directory to your
PATH.
Also, you will probably have to tell XEmacs where to find its
installed packages, or live with a bare-bones XEmacs, as AFAIK there
is no place as standard as /usr/local/xemacs/xemacs-packages (for
Unix) to put them, even for Cygwin, and I doubt configure defaults
correctly of Cygwin. (And if it does, things will Just Work for you
and we can all have Miller Time early!) This is done by setting an
environment variable:
EMACSSYSTEMPACKAGES=C:\path\to\XEmacsPackages
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