Re: Build 207 on xemacs21.5-linux - Build failed: failed compile on rev. 7eba7601cf458aa3e7bb0f49c57464dcee5958e4

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:
> David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
>
>> It does, but XEmacs is called with "-no-autoloads", that's why it cannot
>> find it. But Gnus ships with sha1.el... I'm don't really understand
>> it. If I remove the "-no-autoloads" from the Makefile, it compiles
>> auth-source.el just fine.
>
> Huh.  I wonder what the -no-autoloads thing is meant to achieve?

aclocal.m4 says:

dnl This will set the XEmacs command line options to be slightly different
dnl from the Emacs ones.  If building with XEmacs the options will be
dnl "-batch -no-autoloads..." to give a much cleaner build environment.

This just seems to be the XEmacs way of doing things:

(from: http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/lispref_8.html)

"It is important to note that the XEmacs used to compile packages is the
bare minimum: it is called with the `-no-autoloads'. This means that
anything not dumped into XEmacs by default needs to be specified in the
`REQUIRES' variable (for packaged Lisp) or in some cases the `PRELOADS'
(autoloads used in libraries mentioned in `PRELOADS')."

-David