Re: Questions about emacs-snapshot (and also a small patch)

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Quoting Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>:

> First of all, thanks a lot for emacs-snapshot Jérôme!  I'm currently
> trying to get all my Emacs application packages to load here.

Anytime.

> Now as for as the promised patch, it's as simple as this:
>
> --- orig/patches/misc-unseparated.dpatch
> +++ mod/patches/misc-unseparated.dpatch
> @@ -57,1 +57,1 @@
> - * Installation Changes in Emacs 21.4
> + * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1

Coincidence: I fixed this patch yesterday.

I also:
 - integrated changes we introduced in 21.4a-1
 - wrote a new script which automates the building of snapshots
   from the CVS trunk and the packaging from my Bazaar archive

I need to test changes and I currently have a slow machine
(it takes 50 minutes to build packages).

Announced soon.

> By the way, is there any tla equivalent of `cvs diff'?

Forget about tla. Use bazaar 1.3.2 from debian unstable.

'baz diff' is what you want.

> Oh, and I seem to have a problem with getting `load-path' to include
> entries starting with `/usr/local'.  I discovered this problem when I
> did the following

I don't see what you mean. Could you elaborate?

> --- old/debian-startup.el	2005-04-26 06:20:41.611076992 +0200
> +++ new/debian-startup.el	2005-04-26 06:20:04.480721664 +0200
> @@ -119,9 +119,10 @@
>        ;; ordering.
>        (mapcar
>         (lambda (file)
> -         (condition-case ()
> +;;          (condition-case ()
>               (load file nil)
> -           (error (message "Error while loading %s" file))))
> +;;            (error (message "Error while loading %s" file)))
> +           )
>         base-names)
>        ;; restore the old load-path -- including any new paths added by
>        ;; files loaded in directory traversal.
>
> in an attempt to figure out why certain packages were failing to load.
> (Is there any better way to do this?)
>
> I tried to work around the problem by adding the `/usr/local'-prefixed
> load-path entries in `/etc/emacs-snapshot/site-start.el', but it turns
> out that file is run AFTER the Debian package startup files, which I
> suppose makes sense.
>
> I'm not sure what I'm trying to say here, except this:  If anyone can
> shed some light on some of this, please do.

I have no idea currently. How about looking into emacsen-common?

Cheers,

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Jérôme Marant