[Bug: 21.5-b27] startup.el "borks" filepath?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Thanks for the report, and thank you for localizing it this far!  I
need to clean up some stuff before I can properly try to reproduce it
(tonight, I think), but the following information may help me.
They're all just clarifications, not intended to point to an actual
suspect.

robert delius royar writes:

 > This bug showed up yesterday with the 20061116 CVS.  Compilation
 > occurs as normal, and temacs links.  However, when temacs first
 > loads with the command ./temacs -nd -no-packages -batch -l
 > /Users/royar/src/xemacs/src/../lisp/update-elc.el it aborts after
 > loading startup.el saying that it cannot find the file listed in
 > preloaded-file-list immediately following startup.el.

The only recent change to startup.el is Malcolm's change to the
startup screen code.  I suppose this could result in a change in
XEmacs's default-directory, but it's strange that it wouldn't affect
everybody.

When was the previous build (if you have that as your working XEmacs,
it should be available in M-X emacs-version and M-X describe-installation)?
Do you have an XEmacs installed in /Users/royar/usr/local already?
Does that directory already exist and have reasonable permissions?
Have you tried with any other explicit --prefix settings?

 > uname -a: Darwin grendel.frinabulax.org 8.8.0

This is a Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" system, right?

Thanks!

Steve