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From: Damon Lipparelli <lipp@primus.com>
To: XEmacs Beta Mailing List <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: Minsk: Success under Solaris 2.5.1
X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Minsk" XEmacs  Lucid (beta22)
Reply-To: Damon Lipparelli <lipp@primus.com>
Organization: Primus Communications Corporation

uname -a: SunOS roy 5.5.1 Generic_103640-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1

./configure  '--site-includes=/usr/local/include' '--site-libraries=/usr/local/sun4/lib' '--prefix=/users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3' '--exec-prefix=/users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3/sun4/debug' '--with-gcc=no' '--with-tooltalk' '--with-sparcworks' '--with-sound=none' '--with-mule'


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

  Where should the build process find the source code?    /users/lipp/src/xemacs-beta/xemacs-20.3-b22
  What installation prefix should install use?		  /users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3
  Where should XEmacs look for packages?		  ~/.xemacs:/users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3/lib/xemacs/packages
  What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use?
        `s/sol2.h' and `m/sparc.h'
  What compiler should XEmacs be built with?              cc -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:                                /usr/local/include
  Additional libraries:                                   /usr/local/sun4/lib
  Runtime library search path:                            /usr/local/sun4/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 support for GNU DBM.
  Compiling in Mule (multi-lingual) support.
  Compiling in XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method) support.
    Using Motif to provide XIM support.
  Compiling in support for CDE.
  Compiling in support for ToolTalk.
  Compiling in support for Sun WorkShop.
  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.
  WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------
  WARNING: Compiling in support for runtime error checking.
  WARNING: XEmacs will run noticeably more slowly as a result.
  WARNING: Error checking is on by default for XEmacs beta releases.
  WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------

Recently (in the last few betas), I noticed that with an "exec directory"
different than the install directory causes this "extreme bogosity" when
doing a "make install":

if test "/users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3" != "/users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3/sun4/debug"; then : extreme bogosity follows; \
   test ! -d /users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3/bin && \
        ln -s /users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3/sun4/debug/bin /users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3/bin; \
   test ! -d /users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3/lib/xemacs-20.3-b22/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1 && \
        ln -s /users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3/sun4/debug/lib/xemacs-20.3-b22/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1 \
                     /users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3/lib/xemacs-20.3-b22/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1; \
fi

That is, after going to all of the trouble to separate the system-dependent
bits from the system-independent ones, the install process symlinks the
system-dependent bits back to the system-independent directory.  Since I
need to make sure that the system-dependent "bin" directory is in my path
anyway, it seems like it would make more sense to symlink the
system-independent bits into the system-dependent directory structure

So, in my particular case:

1) "/users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3/lib/xemacs" would be symlink'd to
   "/users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3/sun4/debug/lib/xemacs"

2) "/users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3/lib/xemacs-20.3-b22/{etc,info,lisp}" would 
   be symlink'd into
   "/users/lipp/xemacs-beta/20.3/sun4debug/lib/xemacs-20.3-b22".

What do you all think?
-lipp

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