Re: Recent changes to xemacs.mak

>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Alexander <[email protected]> writes:

Hi Mike, what's up?

I found stranded mail in my www.xemacs.org adrian mailbox.

Have these issues been resolved?

Best regards,

Adrian

    Mike> I like the new support for multiple build trees from a single source
    Mike> tree on Windows.  I've had a kluge like that for ages, but Ben's
    Mike> version is much better.

    Mike> I have noticed a couple of things that aren't quite right, or at least
    Mike> are a bit confusing.  For one thing, relative paths for BUILD_DIR or
    Mike> SOURCE_DIR don't work right.  I've been using "..\Debug" and
    Mike> "..\Release" to build both a debug and release build from the same
    Mike> source tree and had to change the make file a bit to always cd back to
    Mike> the original directory after each cd somewhere else so subsequent file
    Mike> references or cd's based on BLDROOT or SRCROOT work right.  I can
    Mike> submit a patch for that if it's necessary.

    Mike> I also got in to trouble when I built a copy of XEmacs using the
    Mike> "install" target on one machine then copied the resulting install tree
    Mike> to another machine.  It happened that the second machine had an old
    Mike> copy of the build tree on it.  Because xemacs.mak defines
    Mike> PATH_LOADSEARCH and PATH_DATA if SEPARATE_BUILD is true, the copy on
    Mike> the second machine started using lisp files from the old build tree.
    Mike> It got itself very confused when it used a version of cus-face.el from
    Mike> last September.  I'm not quite sure what the best fix for this is
    Mike> since I'm not really sure why xemacs.mak defines PATH_LOADSEARCH and
    Mike> PATH_DATA.  I fixed it easily enough by renaming the build tree on the
    Mike> second machine, but this could hit someone else someday.

    Mike> One other thing is that XEmacs seems to think that the DOC file should
    Mike> be in $(INSTALL_DIR)\lib-src but the install target puts it in
    Mike> $(INSTALL_DIR)\$(EMACS_CONFIGURATION).  In fact the install target
    Mike> doesn't create lib-src at all and XEmacs complains about the install
    Mike> tree if it doesn't exist.

    Mike> Mike Alexander                <mailto:[email protected]>
    Mike> Arbortext, Inc.               +1-734-997-0200


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