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From: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>
Date: 11 Aug 1997 10:10:37 -0400
In-Reply-To: Bill McGrory's message of "Mon, 11 Aug 1997 08:55:05 -0400"
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Bill McGrory writes:

> 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)

By the way, success is a useful indicator.  You should send in a build
report just to let people know that everything is cool.

> 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")

I cannot help on this one.

> 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.

Make sure that you unload everything at the "right" level in your
package directory.  I got stung on this the first time I built with
packages.

Make sure that you are in /usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages when you tar,
so that everything gets unloaded directly under that.

> 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

When you build emacs, the make process first creates an executable
`src/temacs'.  This is started, loads in a bunch of initialization stuff,
and then violently exits in a manner that dumps a new executable
`src/xemacs' (which is the program to run).

This second step (running `src/temacs' to create `src/xemacs') is
referred to as "dumping emacs".

In order to do this, just remove `src/xemacs' and run make again.

> Any clues on what I'm missing here?

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

I have heard that there are some quirks on IRIX, but Linux should be
rock-solid (since sbaur uses it).

-- 
Colin

