Bug#586328: gtk-doc-tools: Upgrade fails: ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured.

Alberto Garcia agarcia at igalia.com
Tue Aug 17 15:38:33 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:00:36AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> This is a serious WTF in emacsen-common and/or emacs itself. It’s
> not appropriate to add a dependency on emacsen-common just for the
> sake of including support for an editor.
> 
> The bug (CCed) has been known for 8 years, so I’ll assume it
> won’t be fixed and will simply drop emacs support from gtk-doc.

There's still a problem with this, and it's that the startup file
50gtk-doc-tools.el uses the dir where compiled elisp files are, so
Emacs won't find gtk-doc in its load-path.

Can we set it to "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gtk-doc-tools" instead ?

Berto






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