Re: emacs-snapshot problems
Sebastien Kirche <sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr.invalid> writes:
> Hi,
Hi,
> I use to follow the Emacs CVS development and i am also under Debian.
> Upon advice from Xavier Maillard some weeks ago, i installed the work from
> Jérôme Marant to build clean Debian Emacs packages.
OK.
> I had no difficulties for the patching/building part. But the packages
> installation was quite more difficult.
> I followed the tips given at http://usefulinc.com/edd/notes/CVSEmacsOnDebian
> but did not manage to have all fixed.
>
> I must tell that i have also the genuine emacs21 package installed to allow
> installation of some other elisp packages (emacs_wiki, nxml, ...) and it
> seems that emacs21 with emacs-snapshot together seem to have some
> undesirable board effects.
Such as?
> Xavier had just told me to look at this list and i find that i fight with
> the same problems other people already had. For example :
> - on-line documentation is partially broken : sometimes it fails to access
> /usr/share/emacs/21.3.50/etc/DOC-21.3.50.7 (looks very like Kai had and
> following what was said on the list i did the make maintainer-clean)
It is strange. The ".7" extension means that emacs has been many more times
than what does the package.
Basically, I use make bootstrap and I shall get DOC-21.3.50.1 only.
Then, when I need to build a with another toolkit (like GTK), make distclean
removes any DOC* file.
> - tramp (provided with cvs package) is totally broken : i cannot access any
> ftp site for example and it also keeps on failing to display help
What tramp cvs package?
> I suppose that there is a problem with the path, that some lisp files are
> seen several times and that for emacs-snapshot some files from emacs21 are
> loaded.
You need to provide details so we can possibly diagnose. Thanks.
> Hopefully Gnus is mainly still functional :) (some problems with bbdb remain)
What's the problem with bbdb?
> Also, i wonder why emacs-snapshot cannot replace the emacs21 instead of
> installing aside. Maybe it would simplify those problems ?
We don't want that. A stable emacs release shall always be around in case
of troubles.
> So, maybe a good soul in the list could help me to debug that stuff ?
Sure.
Cheers,
--
Jérôme Marant
http://marant.org
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