1. I do not have VM installed at all. A few weeks ago I updated to
CVS version and tried running
./configure --disable-vm --enable-rmail
Configuration fails. Configure complains that it can't find VM! D'oh!
On the other hand, if I do not give the '--disable-vm' flag, it
happily reports that it cannot find VM and proceeds to configure
itself w/o VM. Sigh...
2. When trying to use something other than "emacs" as as the emacs
binary for the purposes of configure script I accidentally gave it a
wrong name, say
./configure --with-emacs=/boo/foo/goo
Instead of causing errors at configure time (or perhaps triggering
some "command not found" at make time later) I discovered that
configure inserted several copies of the actual error msg
('/boo/foo/goo: command not found') into lisp/Makefile, silently.
Make went into convultions over that, with not very useful msgs, at
least until you look at the file.
Here's the actual lisp/Makefile snippet:
====
extras: bbdb-print.elc bbdb-ftp.elc bbdb-whois.elc bbdb-xemacs.elc \
./configure[2154]: /boo/foo/goo: not found ./configure[2153]:
/boo/foo/goo: not found bbdb-snarf.elc bbdb-w3.elc \
./configure[2152]: /boo/foo/goo: not found bbdb-merge.elc
bbdb-migrate.elc bbdb-gui.elc
====
I wonder if there's a more graceful way of handling this.
--Boris
PS. I do not think the Emacs version I use is relevant for the
problems I mentioned. I do use GNU Emacs from CVS though.
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