Sebastien Kirche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > J�r�me 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, -- J�r�me Marant http://marant.org
