version control from environment variable

In the file SRC/lisp/startup.el lines 549-557 the following code sets version-control based on the VERSION_CONTROL environment setting: 549- 550- (setq command-line-default-directory default-directory) 551- 552- ;; See if we should import version-control from the environment variable. 553: (let ((vc (getenv "VERSION_CONTROL"))) 554- (cond ((eq vc nil)) ;don't do anything if not set 555- ((or (string= vc "t") 556- (string= vc "numbered")) 557- (setq version-control t)) The problem with this comes when running 'make install' and the system goes through a late iteration of dumping a working XEmacs. The program is in batch mode and does not expect to answer user input. But version-control expects to find out whether to delete excess copies of the generated autoload files. This triggers an assertion. Shouldn't there also be a test for whether we are in batch mode? Or perhaps batchmode should deal with user input prompting. Does any request that leads to a prompt with a needed answer cause batch mode to fail with an assertion? -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English Morehead State University Morehead, Kentucky