Hi Ryan,
Thanks for your report and the patch.
>>> "Ryan" == Ryan T Sammartino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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Ryan> doxymacs.el requires xml-parse.el. Unfortunately the
Ryan> rule that automake generates:
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Ryan> byte compiles each file one at a time, whereas elisp-comp
Ryan> is expecting ALL .el files to be passed in. Thus I get
Ryan> While compiling toplevel forms in file
Ryan> /home/ryants/projects/doxymacs/lisp/elc.14611/doxymacs.el:
Ryan> !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "xml-parse"))
Ryan> Done
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Ryan> +2003-01-05 Ryan T. Sammartino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ryan> +
Ryan> + * lib/elisp-comp: add .. to load-path.
Ryan> +
As far as I can tell the other sources files are not necessarily
in `..'. For instance during a VPATH-build we'd have to search
them in `../$srcdir' (in case `$srcdir' is a relative path) or
in `$srcdir' (if it's absolute). Elisp files could also comes
from subdirectories.
I see this issue was already reported in 2000, without answers.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2000-05/msg00016.html
Wouldn't it be better to teach Automake to byte-compile all
files at once rather than one at a time? I'm willing to do this
if people agree. My impression is that the reason why Automake
byte-compile files one at a time is that it's easier to write
Makefile rules this way. (Make's semantics make it tricky to
write rules with multiple outputs.)
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz
