From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should lisp/Makefile.in custom-deps be using EMACS or emacs? Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:52:03 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200207091852.g69Iq3A13934@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <87k7o86ycp.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026240871 31838 127.0.0.1 (9 Jul 2002 18:54:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 18:54:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17S087-0008HP-00 for ; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 20:54:31 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17S0Gf-0003Ht-00 for ; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 21:03:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17S07l-0002Qt-00; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 14:54:09 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17S05l-0002Bm-00; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 14:52:05 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g69Iq4B22024; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:52:04 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g69Iq3A13934; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:52:03 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: rlb@defaultvalue.org In-Reply-To: <87k7o86ycp.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (message from Rob Browning on Sat, 06 Jul 2002 21:55:18 -0500) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5608 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5608 >From an strace it looked like this arrangement was causing my /usr/share/... custom-deps.el to shadow the newer one in ./lisp The information you omitted with that "..." is crucial information. Precisely what directory was that file in? And what exactly was the value of load-path? I had just presumed that the build process would prefer the source tree versions of the .el files, and so was surprised when my changes to ./lisp/custom-deps.el didn't have any (immediate) effect. Indeed, for an uninstalled Emacs the files in your source tree should take precedence over installed files. Only the site-lisp directories should take precedence over your source tree. If that is working properly, the problem won't happen. So we need to see if it is not properly set up.