Re: xemacs specific .el

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 08:57:36AM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote:
> 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.

Ok, thanks, i will do it then.

> [ No need to CC me, I'm on the list. ]

Then set your mail-followup-to or somethign such header correctly ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther