Comment 24 for bug 612222

>>>>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Uday Reddy wrote:

> The only remaining problem is that of these warnings generated by
> configure.

> ----
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: WARNING: 'Makefile.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
> config.status: creating lisp/Makefile
> config.status: WARNING: 'lisp/Makefile.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
> config.status: creating info/Makefile
> config.status: WARNING: 'info/Makefile.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
> ----

Oops, sorry, I've missed these. Not a real problem though, because
datarootdir isn't used in the generated Makefiles.

> Won't it be ok to include datarootdir just satisfy configure? Naive
> users are likely to get scared by such warnings.

Indeed, that may be better.
Fixed in lp:~ulm/vm/experimental rev.1322.

Cheers,
Ulrich

P.S.: Another thing that I've noticed, the top-level Makefile.in
contains the following lines for the xemacs-package target:

        cd info; make infodir=$(PKGDIR)/info install-pkg
        cd src; make infodir=$(PKGDIR)/bin install-pkg

The second line looks wrong to me. It's like this since 2007 [1]
though, and I'm not sure what's intended. Probably we need an XEmacs
person to check this.

Should I file a new bug, so that the issue won't be forgotten?

[1] <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vm/vm/8.2.x/revision/289>