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Ricardo Marek <ricky@ornet.co.il> writes:

> Hi,

> My question is related with the use of a patch for a release, that is
> used to `upgrade' to a new beta release.

>> From the BETA file, I see that the patch is applied to the
> `unmodified' sources. (and then run make.. )

That is `unmodified' in the sense of having other patches that
inevitably appear between betas applied.

> I patched the releases, but after `configure' has run.

That is supposed be O.K.  Note that after patching you will need to
execute:

./config.status --recheck

for everything to get updated properly.  At least that's what I run on
my --srcdir alternate build trees across betas.  etc/BETA doesn't
mention that, and it should.

> Is it possible to patch the sources  and then run configure? (I guess
> that yes)

Yes.

> Thanks,

> The scenario I use is to install the beta releases in different
> directories, in this way, I can work with two different versions of
> XEmacs (eg. a stable beta release and a brand-new beta release that
> is being checked) For example:

>    - prefix = /u/ricky/xemacs-20.X-bY  (X=Minor-Version, Y=Beta)
>    - bindir = $prefix/bin/sparc-sunos4.1.4

> The configure line I have is something like:
>      configure  --extra-verbose --with-gnu-make
>                 --site-libraries=/usr/local/lib
>                 --prefix=/u/ricky/xemacs-20.3-b13
>                 --bindir=/u/ricky/xemacs-20.3-b13/bin/sparc-sunos4.1.4
>                 --with-database=dbm --cflags=-O2
>                 --with-sound=both --dynamic
>                 sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 --debug

>    Take notice on the prefix and bindir.

And your point is?  Starting with beta 16 it's probably not a good
idea to have --prefix depend on the beta version unless you also set
pkgdir to something static.

