Re: Need help with upstream vs Debian emacs-23.4 build differences

[Glenn Morris]

Dropping help-gnu-emacs since there is no point discussing this on two
lists.

Svante Signell wrote:

> Is cpp used to process the Makefiles, if so where to find it?

In 23.4, yes. Where to find cpp? I don't understand the question...

The latest release is 24.1, which does not use cpp. I would encourage
you to try that and not worry about 23.4.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/emacs24.html

> Another piece of information is that when replacing the dumped emacs
> from Debian with the one from the tarball, build is OK! So it seem that
> the differences are in temacs or the dumped emacs.

IIUC, Debian includes several patches to the Emacs sources.
You might start by selectively removing them.

Also, I never understood what this means:

> However, on Debian the whole source tree is copied to debian/build-?
> where ?=x,nox,lucid.

You mean;

tar zvxf emacs-23.4.tar.gz
cp -pr emacs-23.4 debian/build-x
etc 

?


The loaddefs difference looks like it could be an Emacs bug; but it
ought to be harmless in itself.