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On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Rob Browning wrote:

> I'm on starting to learn the details in lisp/Makefile.in, but I was
> surprised when my changes to lisp/custom-deps.el didn't seem to be
> having an effect on a "make custom-deps".  After looking at
> lisp/Makefile.in, I wondered if the $(EMACS) $(EMACSOPT) in the
> custom-deps target might ought to be $(emacs) instead so that
> EMACSLOADPATH=$(lisp) would be in effect.

Is there any other way to solve your particular problem?  Some non-Unix 
platforms have problems with using $(emacs), so from my perspective it's 
best to leave $(EMACS) $(EMACSOPT) wherever possible.