Re: Emacs build failure

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Colin Walters <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 05:42:53 -0500
> 
> "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I think so, too.  Should I remove it now?
> 
> Yes, please do.

Done.

> Well, I've got about half of calc compiling in the normal Emacs
> Makefile, but there are an absurd number of byte-compiler warnings.

Calc is not the only one.  doctor.el also spits out gobs of
warnings.  I suggest not to be intimidated by that too much.  With
time, the real warnings should be removed, of course; but for now,
don't let this be a show-stopper.

> One thing we could do is just exclude the lisp/calc directory from the
> normal lisp/Makefile byte-compilation rules, and just have a special
> calc target which would cd $(lisp)/calc/ && $(MAKE).  Pretty ugly, but
> it would give us a working calc very quickly.
> 
> What I'm doing now is working on an eshell-style build system where
> all the files do:
> 
> (eval-when-compile
>   (require 'calc-maint))
> 
> But the dependencies are pretty complex.

Why can't you simply use calc-compile, like the original Makefile
did?

> Another alternative is to simply remove calc from being compiled at
> all until it works in the normal system.

If you think it will take a long time to get it to compile, that's a
possibility.