make xemacs-package (was: [Bug: 21.4.18] site-lisp not in load-path)

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Jan 20 2006, David Kastrup wrote:

> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
>> On *BSD, one can't build the package, without hand-editing the
>> Makefile or similar workaround, since it uses "cp -a" to prepare the
>> target directory.
>
> [...] The xemacs-package target is for maintainers only.  It
> requires using the maintainer-only tar-ball target before, and
> tar-ball checks out a fresh copy from CVS before building.
>
> Since this stuff is undocumented and maintainer-only, it is not a
> problem per se that it only run's on the maintainers' operating
> systems.

It wouldn't hurt, if we'd use "cp -pr" instead, AFAICS.

Bye, Reiner.

P.S.: I suggest to redirect follow-ups only to the AUCTeX list;
      Mail-Followup-To: auctex-devel at gnu.org set.
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