Re: set-background-color on the console

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Alex Schroeder wrote:
> 
> > Alex, please note that you need to recompile frame.el and rebuild Emacs 
> > after applying the patch, since frame.elc is preloaded.
> 
> Thanks for working on this, Eli.  Unfortunately it doesn't do
> anything.
> 
> * patched the file in /usr/local/src/emacs-21.1/lisp
> * make distclean in /usr/local/src/emacs-21.1
> * ./configure
> * make
> * used /usr/local/src/emacs-21.1/src/emacs -q and
>   /usr/local/src/emacs-21.1/src/emacs -q -nw in xterm
> * tried M-x set-background-color RET red RET
> 
> No effect.

Is it possible that you forgot to byte-compile frame.el?  "make" 
doesn't do that for you.

> Shall I move all the normal Emacs 21 files out of the way before
> running Emacs from the src dir?

All you need is this:

 - patch frame.el in the source tree
 - byte-compile frame.el in the source tree
 - say "make install"

That's all!  No need for "make distclean" or "./configure".