Re: Gnus 5.11 in Emacs CVS

[Miles Bader]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:
> > > >    src/bootstrap-emacs -batch -f byte-compile-file lisp/vc-arch.el
> > >
> > > Didn't work for me, because my
> > > --prefix=/import/xtra/emacs/Gnus_5_11_arch doesn't exist yet.
> >
> > Hmmm, it should work (I think) -- the emacs being run is not the installed
> > emacs, but src/bootstrap-emacs, and it should be getting its lisp files from
> > ../lisp.
> 
> From a discussion in emacs-pretest-bug (approx. two weeks ago) I
> recall that this is not the case:
>   Subject: Use of system lisp when running freshly built emacs "in place".
> 
> > BTW, are you building in the source tree, or using a separate build dir?
> 
> I always build in the Emacs source directory.

I tried building from a fresh arch checkout, in the source-dir,
with a non-standard (and non-existant) --prefix:

   $ cd /usr/local/emacs
   $ tla get emacs--cvs-trunk--0 test
        ...
   $ cd test
   $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/emacs-test
        ...

   $ make bootstrap
        ...
        ...  (fails as before, trying to compile eshell/esh-module.el)

   $ src/bootstrap-emacs -batch -f batch-byte-compile lisp/vc-arch.el

   In end of data:
   vc-arch.el:421:1:Warning: the function `vc-switches' might not be defined at
       runtime.
   Wrote /usr/local/src/emacs/test/lisp/vc-arch.elc

   $ make -C lisp bootstrap EMACS=../src/bootstrap-emacs
       ...   (all lisp files now successfully compile)

   $ make
       ...   (emacs finishes compiling correctly)

I'm not sure what's going on with your builds; maybe it's the long
pathnames, or your OS?  I'm using debian unstable on a 386 machine.

When you said that the line compiling vc-arch.el failed, what was the
error message?

Thanks,

-Miles
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