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From: Bill McGrory <mcgrory@aerosft.com>
To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
X-Mailer: VM 6.33 under 20.3 "Vienna" XEmacs  Lucid (beta14)

I've been a "silent" follower of the xemacs-beta group for quite some
time now, (Silent, mostly because for my applications, the the betas
have worked pretty well for me) But I've hit a snag in getting the
packaged software to work (since beta 15)

My problem? recognizing where my packages are.

I originally tried to use the --pkgdir configure option to put
packages in "/usr/local/etc/xemacs" but that doesn't seem to work for
me

(my configure is as follows)

/configure  --with-gcc=no --with-sound=native --with-gnu-make=yes \\
 --pkgdir=/usr/local/etc/xemacs --with-xpm=yes

But when I run,
package-path's value is ("/usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages" "~/.xemacs")


So, next I tried putting packages (gnus and auctex) in
/usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages (the default package path, I assume)

but it still doesn't know where gnus is.

my questions

(what exactly does "dump emacs" mean) I've re-made, and I've done
"make dump-elcs" and make, and this doesn't seem to work

Any clues on what I'm missing here?

(BTW, this on IRIX 6.2, and on Debian 1.3)

Thanks, Bill

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