[issue] XEmacs 21.5 can't find packages

I've just updated my workspace (yesterday) and rebuilt XEmacs. I think that I'm using --with-prefix=no for the first time in a while (I stupidly blew away my old Installation file), and I believe that is related. The symptoms are that Installation tells me that Package Search (a 'root' contains '{xemacs,mule,site}-packages'): User package roots: ~/.xemacs System package roots: /usr/local/share/xemacs and there are package hierarchies under both roots, but XEmacs starts up with only the (single) package under ~/.xemacs and the core lisp directories in load-path. Output of debug-paths appended. See issue875 for beta.err containing Installation (actually, configure output) and a build and check log. I see two ways to go here. Mike used to argue that if XEmacs does not build in knowledge of $prefix, the package root should be the same as the installation root. In that case, since I'm running in place, Installation is actually lying about where it will find the packages. (And I bet it would get it wrong for an installed XEmacs unless it were installed in /usr/local/{bin,etc,lib,share}, but --with-prefix=no is precisely intended to make no such promises.) If that's the way we're going to go, we need to fix Installation (ie, configure's reporting function). Personally I prefer to think of the packages as a quasi-independent project, so the package installation has a root of its own. It would be convenient if XEmacs respected its promise in Installation and looked for packages there. But I suspect that would make things more complicated for users who really want to install XEmacs and the packages as a single self-contained bundle. What does everybody think? Steve Starting program: /Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/+clang34/src/xemacs --debug-paths startup-setup-paths arguments: inhibit-packages: nil inhibit-site-lisp: nil called-early: nil invocation-directory: "/Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/+clang34/src/" invocation-name: "xemacs" configure-prefix-directory: nil configure-exec-prefix-directory: nil emacs-roots: ("/Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/+clang34/" "/Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/") emacs-data-roots: ("/Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/+clang34/" "/Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/") user-init-directory: "~/.xemacs/" configure-package-path: nil configure-lisp-directory and lisp-directory: nil "/Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/+clang34/lisp/" configure-mule-lisp-directory and mule-lisp-directory: nil "/Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/+clang34/lisp/mule/" configure-site-directory and site-directory: nil nil configure-early-package-directories, early-package-hierarchies and early-package-load-path: nil ("~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/") ("/Users/steve/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/" "/Users/steve/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/vm/") configure-late-package-directories, late-package-hierarchies and late-package-load-path: nil nil configure-last-package-directories, last-package-hierarchies and last-package-load-path: nil nil load-path: ("/Users/steve/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/" "/Users/steve/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/vm/" "/Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/+clang34/lisp/mule/" "/Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/+clang34/lisp/") configure-module-directory and module-directory: nil configure-site-module-directory and site-module-directory: nil nil configure-info-directory, configure-info-path and Info-directory-list: nil nil ("/Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/+clang34/info/" "/opt/local/share/info/" "/Developer/usr/share/info/") configure-exec-directory and exec-directory: nil "/Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/+clang34/lib-src/" exec-path: ("/opt/local/bin/" "/opt/local/sbin/" "/usr/bin/" "/bin/" "/usr/sbin/" "/sbin/" "/usr/local/bin/" "/opt/X11/bin/" "/Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/+clang34/lib-src/") configure-doc-directory and doc-directory: nil "/Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/+clang34/lib-src/" configure-data-directory and data-directory: nil "/Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/+clang34/etc/" data-directory-list: ("/Users/steve/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/" "/Users/steve/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/vm/" "/Users/steve/src/XEmacs/21.5/pristine/+clang34/etc/") _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta