From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: CVS emacs and debian elisp packages Date: 27 Nov 2004 17:16:21 +1300 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <85zn140vvu.fsf@stuff.gen.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101529248 6996 80.91.229.6 (27 Nov 2004 04:20:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 04:20:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 27 05:20:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CXu4h-0006gz-00 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 05:20:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CXuDx-0002X3-IU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:30:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!lust.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: news.tranzpeer.net Original-X-Trace: lust.ihug.co.nz 1101528978 15292 202.180.64.19 (27 Nov 2004 04:16:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@ihug.co.nz Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 04:16:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) Cache-Post-Path: ftpsrv1!unknown@202.180.103.78 X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126954 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22356 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22356 So, I've just checked out the latest CVS version of emacs, compiled it and installed it (using checkinstall, which makes a debian package). I can't quite get it to use the existing libraries which debian has installed, though. The debian emacs policy: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/debian-emacs-policy says that At a minimum, each emacs must have the following directories in the given order in their load path: /etc/ /etc/emacs /usr/local/share/emacs//site-lisp /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp /usr/share/emacs//site-lisp /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp I tried adding the value of load-path in debian's emacs21 in both ~/.emacs and /usr/local/share/emacs/21.3.50/site-lisp, but I still can't seem to load 'VM'. Perhaps for it to work, the things need to be compiled in. Perhaps it's a silly idea anyway. I note that the debian elisp packages can call something to add things to load-path and such-like, perhaps it's more trouble than it's worth. I just thought it would be nice to be able to apt-get install quack-el or whatever and have it just go. Any suggestions? Is it feasible to get a hand-compiled emacs working with the ddebian elisp packages nicely with minimum of fuss, or should I just install the ones I want by hand? -- -- |Andrew Tarr | arc@stuff.gen.nz | http://arc.stuff.gen.nz |GPG Public Key:- http://arc.stuff.gen.nz/andrew.gpg |_____ "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportions" --Francis Bacon |~~~~~ |