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

[Artemio Gonzalez Lopez]

Vin Shelton wrote:
> On 11/25/06, Artemio Gonzalez Lopez <artemiog at mac.com> wrote:
>> robert delius royar wrote:
>> > Sat, 25 Nov 2006 (14:43 +0100 UTC) Artemio Gonzalez Lopez wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi everybody,
>> >>
>> >> I had exactly the same problem as Robert with startup.el, but I think
>> >> the circumstances in which the problem arose in in my case may shed
>> >> light on the whole issue. I have 3 machines running OS X 10.4.8, on
>> >> all of which xemacs is regularly installed in /opt/local using the
>> >> following options:
>> >
>> > I patched configure.ac using the patch Michael Sperber posted a day 
>> ago.
>> > The archives has the message at
>> > http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-beta/2006-November/000371.html
>> >
>> > Now, I only add '--prefix=/Users/royar/usr/local' to configure, no need
>> > to add the extra definitions to 'make install' or to tell well the
>> > packages are stored.  I removed '--with-prefix' from my configuration
>> > options.
>> >
>> > The program makes and installs without errors.
>> >
>>
>> Robert,
>>
>> I have tried making xemacs with the patched configure.ac file with the
>> following configure options:
> 
> Sorry if this is off-base, but did you run autoconf against the new
> configure.ac in order to regenerate configure?
> 
> HTH,
>  Vin
> 
> 
Vin,

Stephen and you were right on target! Once I rebuilt configure with 
autoconf, I was able to make the latest xemacs in /opt/local with just 
--prefix=/opt/local.

Thanks a lot everybody for your patience!

Cheers,

Artemio