Re: find-function vs. Windows paths

Andy> So the problem that we need to avoid is any attempt by Andy> XEmacs to *access* said path. Fine. But those checks belong in the low level code. If the OS can't be relied on to do the checks, work around the problem in the OS-specific code. In any case we can't prevent users from trying to access such paths. Andy> So I'm not sure I agree with the intent of this. An Andy> installed XEmacs should not have *any* references to the Andy> build-tree, its ludicrous that it should. It might help your Andy> personal setup but in general is a bad idea Why is is a bad idea for XEmacs to keep an accurate audit trail of what it has loaded? Andy> and contrary to the ethos that XEmacs has embodied (i.e. not Andy> being dependent on fixed paths). There's no _dependency_ on fixed paths here; you can change it any time you like. Just redump, or even reload the files on the fly. (Reloading doesn't quite work, since XEmacs compares the strings, not the truenames. So the originally loaded entries may remain. I think that should be changed.) If you want to change the preloaded load-history, that's easy enough in theory. Arrange for the installer(s) to deliver temacs, not xemacs, and dump on the install system. Now everybody's happy. For Unix-like systems with --pdump, already installed with the standard `make install': # do the dirty deed in $libexecdir cd /usr/local/lib/xemacs-21.4.9/i686-pc-linux # you need the Installation file ... ln -s /playpen/Projects/XEmacs/Builds/21.4/Installation ../ # ... and the DOC file ... ln -s i686-pc-linux ../lib-src # ... and the binary in the right places. ln -s ../../../bin/xemacs-21.4.9 ./ # now do it to it ./xemacs-21.4.9 -nd -batch -l ../lisp/loadup.el dump # mv files into place and clean up links and Installation # overwrites the existing .dmp mv xemacs.dmp ../../../bin/xemacs-21.4.9-`./xemacs-21.4.9 -sd`.dmp rm xemacs-21.4.9 cd .. rm Installation lib-src Tested on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py