XEmacs build failure. Error in lisp/Makefile

[Tim Cross]

It appears configure is adding a line break in the lisp/Makefile that breaks the make. Error is on line 108

If configure is run with the arguments

./configure --with-emacs=xemacs --with-other-dirs="/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp;/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3m"

we get
export OTHERDIRS =
("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3m" "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp")

i.e. the value is on the next line

If we run configure without the --with-other-dirs argument, we get

export OTHERDIRS =
nil

I don't think nil should be there either.

The exact error message is

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/tcross/bzr/vm/compiler-fixes/lisp'
Makefile:108: *** missing separator. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tcross/bzr/vm/compiler-fixes/lisp'
make: *** [all] Error 1

This is on a Debian testing system. Using code taken from vm trunk.

This only affects Xemacs build. Normal emacs builds fine. Xemacs versin 21, emacs version 23.2

Editing the lisp/Makefile and either putting the other dirs value on the same line or removing the nil and re-running make from the top level and VM compiles.

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

This should be fixed in revision 918. Needs to be checked.