Re: xemacs specific .el

[Neil Roeth <neil@debian.org>]

On Aug 30, Sven Luther (sven.luther@wanadoo.fr) wrote:
 > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:30:38PM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote:
 > > On Aug 29, Sven Luther (sven.luther@wanadoo.fr) wrote:
 > >  > I have a package that installs a xemacs specific .el file, which
 > >  > naturally don't build with the emacs20 package i have installed.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Is there a way of specifying that only xemacs installs should build a
 > >  > given .el or something such ?
 > > 
 > > Yes, check the Emacs policy doc.  The install scripts get passed the flavor
 > > (emacs20, emacs21, xemacs21) as the first argument, so the script can check it
 > > and skip it unless the flavor is xemacs21.  You can download my aplus-fsf-el
 > > package source if you want an example.  It only works with xemacs21, and I
 > > have both xemacs21 and emacs21 installed on my machines, so I know it's
 > > working properly :-)
 > > 
 > 
 > Ok, nice. Will the install script be called for every .el file, or only
 > for the whole directory. I have a bunch of .el files, and only one has
 > this problem.
 > 
 > I will go read the emacs policy now, i guess it has the answer ... Now,
 > there don't seem to be made any mention of this.

The install script gets called once for each flavor, and since you write that,
you have total control over what it does.  If foo.el is your xemacs specific
script, then some test like

for f in *.el; do
    if [ "$f" != "foo.el" ] || [ "$FLAVOR" != "xemacs" ] 
        ...
done

should do it.

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-- 
Neil Roeth