The package build infrastructure is fundamentally broken in an important way. Fortunately it looks like it's easy to fix. The fundamental breakage is that in the current definition of BOOT_XEMACS, the PRELOADS come from the _installed_ hierarchy, not from the source hierarchy, the way most Makefiles are written. This is because in pre-21.5.6, there is no way to turn off the detection of packages for load-path, even if you don't load any auto-autoloads. This breaks "make World" in a number of places. It also means that mutually dependent packages are not necessarily getting the proper dependencies. To fix, we just need to move the PRELOADS to _after_ the REQUIRES. See patch below. Now package-compile.el is loaded before anything else, it truncates the load-path to what is specified, and points to the source tree for packages. This that we should now be able to get rid of the `./' prefixes and the `-eval "(setq load-path ...)"' currently uglifying the Makefiles. AFAICT this "just works," except for some individual package breakage that gets exposed, see below. The current code in package-compile.el only works because command-line-early (in startup.el) removes the first "--". I don't know if that's the right thing for it to do. I'll submit real patches tomorrow, after doing rm -rf {xemacs,mule}-packages, and then make World again to make sure that the build at least works. Index: XEmacs.rules =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/XEmacs.rules,v retrieving revision 1.35 diff -u -r1.35 XEmacs.rules --- XEmacs.rules 2002/04/02 02:19:52 1.35 +++ XEmacs.rules 2002/05/01 17:07:18 ＠＠ -108,7 +108,7 ＠＠ endif # Behaves like an XEmacs with the required packages setup -BOOT_XEMACS= $(XEMACS) -no-autoloads -batch $(PRELOADS) -l $(PACKAGE_COMPILE) -- $(REQUIRES) -- +BOOT_XEMACS= $(XEMACS) -no-autoloads -batch -l $(PACKAGE_COMPILE) -- $(REQUIRES) -- $(PRELOADS) %.elc: %.el $(BOOT_XEMACS) -f batch-byte-compile $< **** I'm not sure why I can define a prefix to replace an existing **** binding in an interactive session, but you can't do it in a batch **** xemacs. This fixes mule-base. Index: mule-packages/mule-base/canna.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/mule-packages/mule-base/canna.el,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -r1.6 canna.el --- mule-packages/mule-base/canna.el 1999/07/23 06:55:10 1.6 +++ mule-packages/mule-base/canna.el 2002/05/01 17:07:19 ＠＠ -293,16 +293,20 ＠＠ (let ((ch 0)) (while (<= ch 127) - (define-key canna-mode-map (make-string 1 ch) 'canna-functional-insert-command) + (unless (= ch 27) + (define-key canna-mode-map (make-string 1 ch) 'canna-functional-insert-command)) (setq ch (1+ ch)))) (cond ((featurep 'xemacs) +; (define-key canna-mode-map [escape] nil) (define-key canna-mode-map [up] "\C-p") (define-key canna-mode-map [(shift up)] "\C-p") (define-key canna-mode-map [(control up)] "\C-p") + (define-key canna-mode-map [escape O A] "\C-p") (define-key canna-mode-map [down] "\C-n") (define-key canna-mode-map [(shift down)] "\C-n") - (define-key canna-mode-map [(control down)] "\C-n") + (define-key canna-mode-map [(control down)] "\C-n") + (define-key canna-mode-map [escape O B] "\C-n") (define-key canna-mode-map [right] "\C-f") (define-key canna-mode-map [(shift right)] "\C-f") (define-key canna-mode-map [(control right)] "\C-f") ＠＠ -334,16 +338,20 ＠＠ (let ((ch 0)) (while (<= ch 127) - (define-key canna-minibuffer-mode-map (make-string 1 ch) 'canna-minibuffer-insert-command) + (unless (= ch 27) + (define-key canna-minibuffer-mode-map (make-string 1 ch) 'canna-minibuffer-insert-command)) (setq ch (1+ ch)))) (cond ((featurep 'xemacs) +; (define-key canna-mode-map [escape] nil) (define-key canna-minibuffer-mode-map [up] "\C-p") (define-key canna-minibuffer-mode-map [(shift up)] "\C-p") (define-key canna-minibuffer-mode-map [(control up)] "\C-p") + (define-key canna-minibuffer-mode-map [escape O A] "\C-p") (define-key canna-minibuffer-mode-map [down] "\C-n") (define-key canna-minibuffer-mode-map [(shift down)] "\C-n") (define-key canna-minibuffer-mode-map [(control down)] "\C-n") + (define-key canna-minibuffer-mode-map [escape O B] "\C-n") (define-key canna-minibuffer-mode-map [right] "\C-f") (define-key canna-minibuffer-mode-map [(shift right)] "\C-f") (define-key canna-minibuffer-mode-map [(control right)] "\C-f") **** haskell-mode is missing a REQUIRE. Index: xemacs-packages/haskell-mode/Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/haskell-mode/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -r1.6 Makefile --- xemacs-packages/haskell-mode/Makefile 2002/04/29 23:14:37 1.6 +++ xemacs-packages/haskell-mode/Makefile 2002/05/01 17:08:09 ＠＠ -22,7 +22,7 ＠＠ MAINTAINER = Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta(a)xemacs.org&gt; PACKAGE = haskell-mode PKG_TYPE = regular -REQUIRES = dired mail-lib xemacs-base +REQUIRES = dired mail-lib xemacs-base edit-utils CATEGORY = standard ELCS = haskell-decl-scan.elc haskell-doc.elc haskell-font-lock.elc \ **** JDE needs the list evaluated in PRELOADS. (Actually, I suspect **** this can go away now. I'll try tomorrow.) Index: xemacs-packages/jde/Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/jde/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.51 diff -u -r1.51 Makefile --- xemacs-packages/jde/Makefile 2002/03/28 01:39:18 1.51 +++ xemacs-packages/jde/Makefile 2002/05/01 17:08:09 ＠＠ -117,7 +117,7 ＠＠ PRELOADS = -eval "(setq load-path \ (nconc load-path \ - '((expand-file-name \"../fsf-compat/\"))))" + (list (expand-file-name \"../fsf-compat/\"))))" include ../../XEmacs.rules **** liece is broken. This makes it build, but I don't know if it is **** the right way to do it. Missing a PRELOAD, and we need to test **** for non-null for certain search paths. Index: xemacs-packages/liece/lisp/Makefile.lisp =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/liece/lisp/Makefile.lisp,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.2 Makefile.lisp --- xemacs-packages/liece/lisp/Makefile.lisp 2002/03/25 03:04:15 1.2 +++ xemacs-packages/liece/lisp/Makefile.lisp 2002/05/01 17:08:10 ＠＠ -35,7 +35,7 ＠＠ package: $(XEMACS) $(FLAGS) -l ./liece-make.el -f autoload-liece \ $(PREFIX) $(LISPDIR) - $(XEMACS) $(FLAGS) -l ./liece-make.el -f compile-liece-package \ + $(XEMACS) $(FLAGS) -l ./liece-make.el -l advice -f compile-liece-package \ $(PACKAGEDIR) install-package: package Index: xemacs-packages/liece/lisp/liece-config.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/liece/lisp/liece-config.el,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -r1.1 liece-config.el --- xemacs-packages/liece/lisp/liece-config.el 2002/03/23 05:51:22 1.1 +++ xemacs-packages/liece/lisp/liece-config.el 2002/05/01 17:08:10 ＠＠ -85,7 +85,7 ＠＠ (if last-package-load-path last-packages))) dir) - (while (not (file-exists-p (setq dir (car dirs)))) + (while (and dirs (not (file-exists-p (setq dir (car dirs))))) (setq dirs (cdr dirs)) ) dir ))) Index: xemacs-packages/liece/lisp/liece-make.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/liece/lisp/liece-make.el,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -r1.1 liece-make.el --- xemacs-packages/liece/lisp/liece-make.el 2002/03/23 05:51:30 1.1 +++ xemacs-packages/liece/lisp/liece-make.el 2002/05/01 17:08:10 ＠＠ -145,8 +146,8 ＠＠ (if last-package-load-path last-packages))) dir) - (while (not (file-exists-p - (setq dir (car dirs)))) + (while (and dirs (not (file-exists-p + (setq dir (car dirs))))) (setq dirs (cdr dirs))) (defvar PACKAGEDIR dir) (princ (format "PACKAGEDIR=%s\n" PACKAGEDIR))))) -- 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