[V] Don't use installed non-package Lisp when running from the source tree.

Aidan Kehoe kehoea at parhasard.net
Mon Dec 4 05:56:42 EST 2006


 Ar an ceathrú lá de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Michael Sperber: 

 > > Who needs the behaviour, specifically, of preferring installed
 > > (non-package) files to those in the source tree when running in the
 > > source tree and when the installed files are available? Why are they
 > > relying on startup-setup-paths to do this?
 > 
 > I've lost track over the years of who wants what behavior.  What I do
 > know is that almost any change (specifically this one) in this area
 > will break somebody's setup.

I’m sorry, but that’s not a reasonable ground for a veto. It’s possible to
say ‘almost any change will break somebody’s setup’ in objection to any
patch that changes functionality. It’s the details of what will break and
the trade-off of that breakage versus the improvement that the patch will
hopefully bring, that make such an objection worth considering or not.

 > Anyway, the bug report actually seems related to the switch to
 > autoconf 2.6 rather than the search algorithm per se.  I have a fix
 > for it that needs polishing; I'll try to do that tomorrow.

Well, okay. I’ll test that change.

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