[C] Update JDE and dependencies

[Vin Shelton]

On Nov 28, 2007 2:09 AM, Michael Sperber <sperber at deinprogramm.de> wrote:
>
> Thanks for hanging in there!
>
> "Vin Shelton" <acs at alumni.princeton.edu> writes:
>
> > Here's the latest error for a 21.4 non-mule build:
> > [...]
> > Symbol's function definition is void: defclass
> > xemacs exiting
>
> I believe this is because 21.4 doesn't have this patch yet:
>
> http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-patches/2007-October/000924.html

Will a compiled .elc run in a 21.4 without that patch?  Otherwise,
you've introduced a backward incompatibility that's very serious, and
we'd have to discuss how to fix this.

>
> >   Loading /usr/local/build/xemacs-packages-2007-11-27/xemacs-packages/semantic/auto-autoloads.el...
>
> You need to have compiled semantic (a dependency) before doing
> this---byte-compiling its auto-autoloads.el will remove the missing
> `function-overload-p'.

Actually, IMO *you* need to fix this in the build procedure.  'make'
at the top level must take care of this, but I think it already does,
no?

> > Perhaps you should try building all the packages from clean CVS
> > sources yourself?
>
> I did, about 200 times, but it's so difficult to get consistent results
> with Lisp's crazy compilation infrastructure.  Just now, I found and
> fixed a dependency problem with the ede package, which cogre
> transitively depends on---you shouldn't even have gotten to the point
> you did.

Granted that things could be more robust in this area, but the nightly
package build can help in this area.  (Thank you, Mats.)

I'm running a clean build with the patched ede Makefile using 21.5
right now.  I may or may not have results before I fly home in a few
hours.

Regards,
  Vin