Re: autoloads 1, bindist 0

Could someone please try make html and report the outcome? I am too busy right now to do it myself. Thanks in advance, Adrian SY> |--==> "VS" == Vin Shelton <acs(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: VS> 'make autoloads' now succeeds. SY> Woohoo!:-) VS> 'make bindist' fails right away, however. It used to be possible to VS> run 'make bindist' immediately after running 'make autoloads'. Now VS> that is no longer possible. There is apparently a dependency missing VS> from the 'cleaned up' Makefiles. bindist must depend on the .elc VS> files. SY> It's actually doing the right thing here (Ben[tm]). The SY> 'bindist' and 'install' targets _don't_ build anything, they just SY> install files. And in the case of 'bindist' create tarballs. SY> So, with the way things are at the moment, you need to: SY> make SY> make (bindist|install) SY> The first make will build the autoloads and then the package. The SY> second make will install (create tarballs in the case of 'bindist'). SY> According to the "standards" this is *WRONG*: SY> ,----[ (Info-goto-node "(standards)Standard Targets") ] SY> | `install' SY> | Compile the program and copy the executables, libraries, and so on SY> | to the file names where they should reside for actual use. If SY> | there is a simple test to verify that a program is properly SY> | installed, this target should run that test. SY> `---- SY> I'll patch XEmacs.rules to do the correct thing. SY> -- SY> |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 10D5C9C5>---| SY> | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | SY> | It's a way of life. | SY> |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---| -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/