Hauke Fath <hf(a)spg.tu-darmstadt.de&gt; writes: No. I'm really unsure of what your problem is or of what you're trying to do. (The paths subsystem should be able to pick up your packages automatically if they're in a place XEmacs knows about.) Could you elaborate? -- Regards, Mike _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta

I acknowledge the problem. I have similar problems with maintenance of xemacs packages in Gentoo. There we handle the xemacs packages as binary blobs (and as such can't easily be patched.) You see, there is one supported way to build xemacs packages and that is by using the xemacs package source tree. This includes the make support with dependencies between packages etc so they are guarantied to get right. That mixes badly with what you want to do as you have noticed. In Gentoo we have for now used the following compromise. If there are packages that needs to be patched we try to get that patch into the beta release of that package and use the beta package also in the stable tree. It has its problems but requires little development on our part. I guess it is technically possible to do what you are attempting but that is more or less constructing a new build system for the packages isn't it? You can do that if you want but if you have full control of your sources why don't you just clone the xemacs package tree and patch it there and distribute your own versions of all elisp modules? I also find that most patches are not distribution dependent and does more good if they are contributed to the xemacs package tree and even upstream to that. Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta

On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 01:02:08 +0200, Mats Lidell wrote: I hope not. ;) What I have now, and what appears to work for me, is the following elisp snippet (defun add-subdirs-to-load-path (basedir) "Add all first level dirs below basedir to load-path." (dolist (f (directory-files basedir)) (let ((name (concat basedir "/" f))) (when (and (file-directory-p name) (not (member f '("." ".."))) (add-to-list 'load-path name)))) (add-to-list 'load-path basedir))) (defun compile-el-file (basedir el-file) "With a given base path, set up load-path, and byte compile an elisp source file." (add-subdirs-to-load-path basedir) (byte-compile-file el-file)) which the 'editors/semacs-package' Makefile then uses as follows pre-configure: [...] ＠${ECHO_MSG} "Re-compiling patched elisp files ... " for ff in `cat ${PATCHDIR}/*.el | awk '/^\\+\\+\\+/ { print $$2 }'` ; do \ ${RM} -f ${WRKSRC}/$${ff}.orig ; \ cd ${WRKSRC} && xemacs --vanilla --batch \ --eval "(load-file \"${PKGDIR}/files/compile-el-file.el\")" \ --eval "(compile-el-file \"${WRKSRC}/lisp\" \ \"${WRKSRC}/$${ff}\")" ; \ done ＠${ECHO_MSG} "done" Cheerio, hauke -- The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath () No HTML/RTF in email Institut für Nachrichtentechnik /\ No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-3281 _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta