XEmacs 21.5.27 "fiddleheads" is released.

[Neal Becker]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>>>>>> "Neal" == Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>     Neal> --datadir=/usr/share
> 
> Don't do that.  That flag refers to core architecture-independent
> files.  In theory that may supposed to work, but I don't think anybody
> has actually tried it for ages.  Although Lisp is supposed to be
> architecture-independent, in practice you don't want to share core
> Lisp across builds, especially in the unstable line---functions tend
> to move between Lisp and C, APIs change, etc.
> 
> To get that effect for the packages only, use the
> --with-system-packages flag.  I think for your configuration you want
> the value to be /usr/share/xemacs.
> 
> 

I found that non-obvious.  I thought maybe I needed --package-path.  Also,
the current Fedora xemacs package uses --datadir=/usr/share (that's where I
got it).

Success! (At least so far...)


Is there a test suite to run?

uname -a: Linux nbecker4 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 #1 SMP Thu May 4 21:16:04 EDT
2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

./configure '--prefix=/usr' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
'--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--mandir=/usr/share/man/man1'
'--with-docdir=/usr/lib64/xemacs-21.5.27/doc' '--with-xft'
'--with-system-packages=/usr/share/xemacs'


XEmacs 21.5-b27 "fiddleheads"  configured for `x86_64-unknown-linux'.

Compilation Environment and Installation Defaults:
  Source code location:              /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.5.27
  Installation prefix:               /usr
  Operating system description file: `s/linux.h'
  Not using any machine description file
  Compiler version:                  gcc (GCC) 4.1.0 20060304 (Red Hat
4.1.0-3)
    - GCC specs file:                specs.
    - Compiler command:              gcc   -Wall -Wno-switch -Wundef
-Wsign-compare -Wno-char-subscripts -Wpacked -Wunused-parameter -g  
  libc version:                      glibc-2.4-8
glibc-2.4-8
  Relocating allocator for buffers:  no
  GNU version of malloc:             yes
    - Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.

Window System:
  Compiling in support for the X window system:
    - X Windows headers location:                 
    - X Windows libraries location:               
    - Handling WM_COMMAND properly.
  Compiling in support for the Athena widget set:
    - Athena headers location:                    X11/Xaw
    - Athena library to link:                     Xaw
  Using Lucid menubars.
  Using Lucid scrollbars.
  Using Athena dialog boxes.
  Using Athena native widgets.

TTY:
  Compiling in support for ncurses.
  Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse).

Images:
  Compiling in support for GIF  images (builtin).
  Compiling in support for XPM  images.
  Compiling in support for PNG  images.
  Compiling in support for JPEG images.
  Compiling in support for TIFF images.

Sound:
  Compiling in support for sound (native).
  Compiling in support for ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture).

Databases:
  Compiling in support for Berkeley database.
  Compiling in support for LDAP.
  Compiling in support for PostgreSQL.
    - Using PostgreSQL header file:  libpq-fe.h
    - Using PostgreSQL V7 bindings.

Internationalization:

Mail:
  Compiling in support for "file" mail spool file locking method.

Other Features:
  Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup.
  Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules.
  Using the new GC mark algorithms (KKCC).
  WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------
  WARNING: The new algorithms are experimental. They are enabled by
  WARNING: default for this release. Use `--disable-kkcc' to
  WARNING: turn it off.
  WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------
  Using the new portable dumper.
  Dumping into executable.
  Compiling in support for extra debugging code.
  Compiling in support for runtime error checking.
  WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------
  WARNING: XEmacs will run noticeably more slowly as a result.
  WARNING: Error checking is on by default for XEmacs beta releases.
  WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------