Re: [Gcl-devel] configure: EMACS_DEFAULT_EL

[Jerry James]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Andrey G. Grozin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello *,
>
> I've checked out gcl Version_2_6_8pre from cvs on 21.12.2011, and compiled
> it on 32-bit gentoo linux (gcl is no longer in gentoo officially, due to the
> absence of a release). The current configure, in order to find
> EMACS_DEFAULT_EL, does
>
> $EMACS -q -batch --no-site-file -l conftest.el 2>&1
>
> But there is no conftest.el anywhere; as a result, default.el is installed
> into / - not the place one would wish. What's conftest.el and where should
> it be?
>
> Andrey

It is created by the configure script itself.  Look for this line:

cat >> conftest.el <<EOF

Perhaps your problem is caused by an earlier configure error.  Try
looking through config.log to see if it all looks sane.
-- 
Jerry James
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