Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
At 00:04 02/12/98 -0800, SL Baur wrote:
> I'm trying to build XEmacs packages from a bare-ass buck-naked binary
> with no installed packages besides mule-base. What is happening with
> this error message?
My guess would be that there is a package dependency that can't
be found
and so xemacs is trying to get it remotely.
Of course. It's bare-ass buck-naked. The package-path is essentially
/dev/null except for mule-base. I don't expect it to find texinfo
stuff because it isn't pointed at any texinfo stuff and it is _good_
that it isn't finding any. :-)
Seems cheesy ;)
Only the prompt with `-batch' is bad. Offering to fetch the package
seems most reasonable to me.
Shouldn't there be a package-path that shows where the texinfo
stuff is?
Irrelevant in this case. The prompt needs to be removed when XEmacs is
noninteractive and we need to fix the problem where it crosses the
assertion when prompting is attempted anyway[1].
Footnotes:
[1] I don't consider the latter a show-stopper. It's likely not a
new bug and has never been reported before.