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From: "Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw@CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
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Subject: Success w/ beta 17, minor new install problem
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I just pulled down, built, and installed beta17.  This time I actually
tried installing it in a staging area, rather than try to run XEmacs
in place.  It looks like the new installation procedures have
eliminated nearly all the previous problems I'd had requiring symbol
linking, etc.  Thanks very much Steve (and Martin, and whomever else
had a hand in fixing all this).

One minor glitch.  The standard tarball comes with an empty
subdirectory called $EMACSRC/site-lisp.  I typically wax this
directory and create a symbolic link from it to
$MYSITESHAREDSTUFF/xemacs/site-lisp, which works great when you're
running in place.

The install script doesn't quite cope though.  It creates an empty
directory in $PREFIX/lib/xemacs/site-lisp.  It would be nice if
install could recognize that $EMACSRC/site-lisp is a symbolic link and 
copy that link to $PREFIX/lib/xemacs/site-lisp.  If it's too much
trouble, I understand, but I think that last step would eliminate all
post-install hackery I have to do.

So far so good, b17 looks great.

-Barry

-------------------- snip snip --------------------
uname -a: SunOS anthem 5.5.1 Generic_103640-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2

./configure  '--prefix=/home/bwarsaw/projects/depot/gnu' '--exec-prefix=/home/bwarsaw/projects/depot/gnu/plat' '--site-libraries=/depot/gnu/plat/lib /depot/sundry/plat/lib' '--site-includes=/depot/gnu/include /depot/sundry/include' '--error-checking=none' '--debug=yes' '--with-xpm=yes' '--with-database=no' '--with-database=gnudbm'


Configured for `sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1'.

  Where should the build process find the source code?    /home/bwarsaw/src/xemacs-20.3-b17
  What installation prefix should install use?		  /home/bwarsaw/projects/depot/gnu
  What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use?
        `s/sol2.h' and `m/sparc.h'
  What compiler should XEmacs be built with?              gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-switch
  Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc?            yes
  Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? yes
  What window system should XEmacs use?                   x11
  Where do we find X Windows header files?                /usr/dt/include /usr/openwin/include
  Where do we find X Windows libraries?                   /usr/dt/lib /usr/openwin/lib
  Additional header files:                                /depot/gnu/include /depot/sundry/include
  Additional libraries:                                   /depot/gnu/plat/lib /depot/sundry/plat/lib
  Runtime library search path:                            /depot/gnu/plat/lib:/depot/sundry/plat/lib:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/openwin/lib
  Compiling in support for XAUTH.
  Compiling in support for GIF image conversion.
  Compiling in support for XPM images.
  Compiling in support for X-Face message headers.
  Compiling in support for JPEG image conversion.
  Compiling in support for PNG image conversion.
  Compiling in native sound support.
  Compiling in support for GNU DBM.
  Compiling in support for CDE.
  Compiling in support for ToolTalk.
  Compiling in support for proper session-management.
  Using Lucid menubars.
  Using Lucid scrollbars.
  Using Motif dialog boxes.
  movemail will use "dot-locking" for locking mail spool files.
  Compiling in extra code for debugging.
  Compiling in code for checking XEmacs memory usage.


 

