Stefan Reichör, 2007-08-23:
> I got the following question regarding the debian package:
>
>> I built deb packages from yesterday's snapshot using
>> dpkg-buildpackage -r fakeroot -b
>> on an Ubuntu 7.04 system, emacs21.4.1
>> While building the package I noticed:
>>
>> config.status: WARNING: dvc-load-install.el contains a reference to the
>> variable `datarootdir'
>> which seems to be undefined. Please make sure it is defined.
>
>
> What is the status of the debian package. Should it work?
I don't know. But the warning above is not specific to Debian and not
an indication that DVC is not working. Building DVC from scratch prints
it every time; for example, "make distclean && autoconf && ./configure"
in the source tree prints it.
The file dvc-load-install.el (generated by ./configure from
dvc-load-install.el.in) contains this code:
(add-to-list 'load-path "$(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp/dvc/")
(unless (locate-library "ewoc")
(add-to-list 'load-path "$(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp/dvc/contrib"))
(add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "${datarootdir}/info/info")
I don't see how this code can possibly work; as far as I know, Emacs
doesn't have any special treatment for the prefixes "$(prefix)" or
"${datarootdir}" in entries in `load-path' and
`Info-default-directory-list'.
Since I don't think this code works at all, I suspect nobody is using
this file. We can just delete it. That would get rid of the warning.
Any objections?
Christian.
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