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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: XEmacs Beta Test <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: lisp/util/config.el and lib-src/config.values
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

Those of you who have played with this have found it to be slightly
broken.  As usual, a redesign was necessary to get all the little
variables like $INSTALL and $prefix right.  A new (and improved?)
implementation will be in beta 17.

However, not all the "$"s in config values will be removed, since that
would be misleading wrt. configure.  Also, as a result of a configure
idiosyncracies, you will need to look at top_srcdir instead of srcdir
to access the value of the --srcdir flag.  There will be a new
variable, blddir, accessible from elisp, which will accurately reflect
the build directory, which, after all, might be different from srcdir
if the --srcdir option is used.

Martin

