Compilation of packages from CVS; problems and workarounds

Greetings, Now that I finally got XEmacs 21.4.1 compiled and installed, I thought to try to compile all packages from CVS (updated few minutes ago). First of all, INSTALL tells to do `make autoloads' and `make install', but I don't want to compile and install in a single step, so I'm running `make all' and `make just-install' instead of `make install'. * compilation of patcher.el in package xemacs-devel fails because sendmail cannot be found. I think this is because xemacs-devel doesn't require mail-lib in its Makefile. At least adding mail-lib to REQUIRES fixed the problem. * generation of vm.info in package vm fails because texinfmt couldn't be loaded. I added: -eval '(push "../../wp/texinfo/" load-path)' -l informat to the command line that generates vm.info to "fix" the problem (this obviously doesn't consider XEMACS_NATIVE_NT_NEEDS_EXTRA_QUOTING etc.) * compilation of w3 failed because advice couldn't be loaded. I added ../../libs/xemacs-base to the load-path in a similar way as above. * generation of ja.info in package tm failed --- reason and fix similar to the second problem. However, even after that fix I get: ... make[3]: Entering directory `/.../xemacs-packages-compiled/comm/tm/texi' /usr/local/xemacs-21.4/bin/xemacs -batch -q -no-site-file tm-ja.texi \ -eval '(unless (featurep (quote mule)) (kill-emacs 0))' \ -eval '(push "../../../wp/texinfo/" load-path)' -l informat \ -l texinfmt -f texinfo-format-buffer \ -eval '(setq file-coding-system (quote iso-2022-7))' \ -eval '(save-buffer 0)' File mode specification error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) Formatting Info file... ... * generation of mew info files in package mew failed --- reason and fix similar to the second problem. * compilation of ILISP failed because ilisp-mak.el tried to load comint and it couldn't be found. I added ../../libs/xemacs-base to the PRELOADS and added $(PRELOADS) to the command line that loads ilisp-mak.el. Compilation of hyperspec failed because browse-url and thingatpt couldn't be found. I added ../../libs/{mail-lib,fsf-compat} to PRELOADS and added $(PRELOADS) to the command line that compiles hyperspec.el. * generation of calc.info in package calc failed --- reason and fix similar to the second problem. * ditto for generation of info files in package mule/lookup * ditto for generation of info files in package mule/skk After these fixes `make all' finally succeeded, just like `make just-install' after that. Sorry, I didn't prepare patches because I don't know if this kind of bootstrapping is even supposed to work, I'd rather not import 70MB of packages to a local repository, I don't know if relative paths and explicitly modifying command lines everywhere are good ideas and because I thought I would get away with just a few problems, I didn't do my fixes with proper care and just quickly hacked things to work for myself. -- Hannu Please don't send copies of list mail