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1 -*- mode:outline; minor-mode:outl-mouse -*-
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3 * Introduction
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4 ==============
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6 You are running an experimental version of XEmacs. Please do not
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7 report problems with Beta XEmacs to comp.emacs.xemacs. Report them to
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8 xemacs-beta@xemacs.org.
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9
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10 ** XEmacs Beta Mailing List
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11 ===========================
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12
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13 *** Subscribing
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14 ---------------
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16 If you are not subscribed to the XEmacs beta list you should be. Send
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17 an email message with a subject of `subscribe' (without the quotes) to
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18 xemacs-beta-request@xemacs.org and follow the directions. You do not
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19 have to fill out the survey if you don't want to.
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20
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21 *** Unsubscribing
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22 -----------------
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24 To unsubscribe from the list send an email message with a subject of
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25 `unsubscribe' (without the quotes) to xemacs-beta-request@xemacs.org.
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26
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27 *** Administrivia
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28 -----------------
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30 The XEmacs beta list is managed by the SmartList mailing list package,
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31 and the usual SmartList commands work. Do not send mailing list
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32 requests to the main address (xemacs-beta@xemacs.org), always send
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33 them to xemacs-beta-request@xemacs.org. If you have problems with the
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34 list itself, they should be brought to the attention of the XEmacs
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35 Mailing List manager Steve Baur <steve@xemacs.org>.
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36
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37
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38 ** Beta Release Schedule
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39 ========================
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41 The URL ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/beta/README always contains the best
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42 estimate of when the next beta XEmacs will be released. For weekend
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43 betas the release time is generally in the vicinity of 2PM to 5PM US
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44 Pacific Time (Universal Time minus 8 hours). For weekday betas, the
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45 release time is generally in the vicinity of 8PM to Midnight US
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46 Pacific Time on the listed day.
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48 Betas are nominally a week apart, scheduled on every Saturday.
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49 Midweek releases are made when a serious enough problem warrants it.
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50
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51
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52 ** Reporting Problems
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53 =====================
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55 The best way to get problems fixed in XEmacs is to submit good problem
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56 reports. Since this is beta software, problems are certain to exist.
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57 Please read through all of part II of the XEmacs FAQ for an overview
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58 of problem reporting. Other items which are most important are:
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60 1. Do not submit C stack backtraces without line numbers. Since it
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61 is possible to compile optimized with debug information with GCC
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62 it is never a good idea to compile XEmacs without the -g flag.
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63 XEmacs runs on a variety of platforms, and often it is not
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64 possible to recreate problems which afflict a specific platform.
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65 The line numbers in the C stack backtrace help isolate where the
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66 problem is actually occurring.
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67
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68 2. Attempt to recreate the problem starting with an invocation of
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69 XEmacs with `xemacs -q -no-site-file'. Quite often, problems are
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70 due to package interdependencies, and the like. An actual bug in
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71 XEmacs should be reproducible in a default configuration without
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72 loading any special packages (or the one or two specific packages
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73 that cause the bug to appear).
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74
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75 3. A picture can be worth a thousand words. When reporting an
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76 unusual display, it is generally best to capture the problem in a
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77 screen dump and include that with the problem report. The easiest
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78 way to get a screen dump is to use the xv program and its grab
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79 function. Save the image as a GIF to keep bandwidth requirements
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80 down without loss of information. MIME is the preferred method
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81 for making the image attachments.
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82
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83 * Compiling Beta XEmacs
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84 =======================
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86 ** Building an XEmacs from patches
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87 ==================================
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89 All beta releases of XEmacs are included with patches from the
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90 previous version in an attempt to keep bandwidth requirements down.
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91 Patches should be applied with the GNU patch program in something like
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92 the following. Let's say you're upgrading XEmacs 20.4-beta10 to
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93 XEmacs 20.4-beta11 and you have a full unmodified XEmacs 20.4-beta10
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94 source tree to work with. Cd to the top level directory and issue the
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95 shell command:
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97 $ gunzip -c /tmp/xemacs-20.4-b10-20.4-b11.patch.gz | patch -p1
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99 After patching, check to see that no patches were missed by doing
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100 $ find . -name \*.rej -print
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102 Any rejections should be treated as serious problems to be resolved
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103 before building XEmacs.
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105 After seeing that there were no rejections, issue the commands
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108 $ make beta
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110 and go play minesweep for a while on an older XEmacs while the binary
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111 is rebuilt.
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116 Locate a convenient place where you have at least 100MB of free space
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117 and issue the command
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119 $ gunzip -c /tmp/xemacs-20.4-b11.tar.gz | tar xvf -
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121 (or simply `tar zxvf /tmp/xemacs-20.4-b11.tar.gz' if you use GNU tar).
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123 cd to the top level directory and issue an appropriate configure
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124 command. One maintainer uses the following at the time of this
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125 writing:
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127 ./configure \
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128 --cflags="-m486 -g -O4 -fno-strength-reduce -malign-loops=2 \
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129 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2" \
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130 --with-sound=no --with=offix \
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131 --error-checking=all --debug=yes \
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132 --with-scrollbars=athena3d --with-dialogs=athena3d \
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133 --with-mule --with-canna --with-wnn
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137 Configured for `i586-unknown-linux2.0.28'.
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139 Where should the build process find the source code? /usr/src/xemacs-20.4
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140 What installation prefix should install use? /usr/local
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141 Where should XEmacs look for packages? ~/.xemacs:/usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages
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142 What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use?
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143 `s/linux.h' and `m/intel386.h'
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144 What compiler should XEmacs be built with? gcc -m486 -g -O4 -fno-strength-reduce -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2
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145 Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes
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146 Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? yes
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147 What window system should XEmacs use? x11
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148 Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/X11R6/include
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149 Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/X11R6/lib
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150 Compiling in support for XAUTH.
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151 Compiling in support for GIF image conversion.
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152 Compiling in support for XPM images.
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153 Compiling in support for X-Face message headers.
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154 Compiling in support for JPEG image conversion.
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155 Compiling in support for PNG image conversion.
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156 Compiling in support for TIFF image conversion (not implemented).
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157 Compiling in support for Berkeley DB.
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158 Compiling in support for GNU DBM.
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159 Compiling in Mule (multi-lingual) support.
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160 Compiling in support for the WNN input method on Mule.
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161 Using WNN version 6.
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162 Compiling in support for OffiX.
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163 Using the Lucid menubar.
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164 Using the Athena-3d scrollbar.
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165 Using the Athena-3d dialog boxes.
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167 Then type `make; make finder' and you should have a working XEmacs.
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169 After you have verified that you have a functional editor, fire up
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170 your favorite mail program and send a build report to
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171 xemacs-beta@xemacs.org. The build report should include
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172
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173 1. Your hardware configuration (OS version, etc.)
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175 2. Version numbers of software in use (X11 version, system library
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176 versions if appropriate, graphics library versions if appropriate).
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177 If you're on a system like Linux, include all the version numbers
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178 you can because chances are it makes a difference.
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180 3. The options given to configure
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182 4. The configuration report illustrated above
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185 `Installation' in the top level build directory.
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187 5. Any other unusual items you feel should be brought to the attention
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188 of the developers.
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190 ** Creating patches for submission
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191 ==================================
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193 When making patches you should use the `-c' option, or preferably, if
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194 your diff supports it, `-u'. Using ordinary (context-free) diffs are
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195 notoriously prone to error, since line numbers tend to change when
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196 others make changes to the same source file.
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198 $ diff -u old-file.c new-file.c
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200 -or-
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202 $ diff -c old-file.c new-file.c
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204 Also, it is helpful if you create the patch in the top level of the
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205 XEmacs source directory:
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207 $ cp -p lwlib/xlwmenu.c lwlib/xlwmenu.c.orig
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208 hack, hack, hack....
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209 $ diff -u lwlib/xlwmenu.c.orig lwlib/xlwmenu.c
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211 It is preferrable for patches to be accompanied by an update (raw
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212 entry preferred) to the appropriate ChangeLog file.
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214 Also note that if you cut & paste from an xterm to an XEmacs mail buffer
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215 you will probably lose due to tab expansion. The best thing to do is
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216 to use an XEmacs shell buffer to run the diff commands, or ...
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217 M-x cd to the appropriate directory, and issue the command `C-u M-!' from
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220 * XEmacs 20.3 packages
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222 XEmacs 20.3 has added the concept of installable packages searched prior
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223 to dump time when building.
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225 Packages are searched by default under /usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages/.
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226 The summary message in configure will tell you where XEmacs is looking
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227 for them. The packages hierarchy differs from site-lisp in that you
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228 do not have to install XEmacs to use it. Indeed, the package path is
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230 status as lisp distributed in the xemacs core tarball.
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232 The structure of each directory in the package search path should look
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233 like the base installed directory (ie. have etc/, info/, and lisp/,).
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234 Lisp is searched recursively. It and all subdirectories are added to
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235 the `load-path'. Each etc directory is added to `data-directory-list',
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236 and each info directory is added to `Info-default-directory-list'.
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238 A `find . -type d -print' in my top-level package directory reveals:
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239 ./etc
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240 ./etc/auctex
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241 ./etc/auctex/style
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242 ./etc/gnus
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243 ./etc/skk
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244 ./etc/gnusrefcard
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245 ./etc/smilies
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246 ./etc/message
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247 ./info
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248 ./lisp
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249 ./lisp/gnus
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250 ./lisp/auctex
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251 ./lisp/auctex/man
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252 ./lisp/footnote
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253 ./lisp/skk
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256 AUCTeX and Gnus have package tarballs in
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257 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/beta/packages-20.3/
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258 that you can simply untar in a package directory to install.
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265 =====================================
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267 The packages directory
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268 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/beta/packages-20.3/
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270 is divided into subdirectory by the major type of package.
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272 drwxr-xr-x 2 beta-f beta-f 1024 Oct 10 00:43 binary-packages
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273 drwxr-xr-x 2 beta-f beta-f 512 Oct 10 00:44 package-sources
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274 drwxr-xr-x 2 beta-f beta-f 512 Oct 9 23:08 single-file-packages
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275 drwxr-xr-x 2 beta-f beta-f 512 Oct 10 00:44 utils
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276
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277 ** Support Utilities (utils)
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278 ============================
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280 The utils directory contains tools to deal with current Lisp sources that
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281 have not had yet gotten XEmacs package integration. The script `xpackage.sh'
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282 is used with Quassia Gnus. Edit the appropriate variables at the top of
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283 the script to reflect the local configuration and run it in the top level
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284 directory of a Quassia Gnus source tree to install an update to Quassia Gnus.
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285
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286 ** Source Installable Packages (package-sources)
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287 ================================================
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289 This directory contains tarballs of Lisp packages that contain full support
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290 for installing as an XEmacs package. To install them, one should untar
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291 them to someplace convenient (like /var/tmp), and issue the appropriate make
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292 command to install.
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293
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294 ** Binary package installation (binary-packages)
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295 ================================================
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297 Prerequisite: XEmacs 20.3-beta28.
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299 Binary packages are complete entities that can be untarred at the top
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300 level of an XEmacs package hierarchy and work at runtime. To install files
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301 in this directory, run the command `M-x package-admin-add-binary-package'
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302 and fill in appropriate values to the prompts.
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304 ** Single file package installation
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305 ===================================
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306
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307 Prerequisite: XEmacs 20.3-beta28.
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309 These are single file, self-contained lisp packages that don't need a
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310 separate directory. To install something from this directory, run
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311 the command `M-x package-admin-add-single-file-package' and fill in the
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