Re: [Monotone-devel] xmtn: Emacs integration via DVC

[Derek Scherger]

Christian Ohler wrote:
> DVC, an Emacs package that provides a generic interface to distributed
> version control systems, now has a monotone backend.  This backend is
> called xmtn.

This sounds interesting and I had a really quick look at it but ran into
a couple of problems.

$ tar ztvf dvc-snapshot.tar.gz | head -n1
drwxr-xr-x moy/synchron      0 2007-04-03 19:25 dvc-snapshot.tar.gz/

Apparently the top-level directory in the tarball has the same name as
the tarball so untarring it overwrites the tarball. This seems a bit odd
at least but it's not the real problem.

$ tar zxf dvc-snapshot.tar.gz
$ cd dvc-snapshot.tar.gz
$ autoconf
$ ./configure --with-emacs=xemacs --prefix=$HOME/opt
...
config.status: WARNING: dvc-load-install.el contains a reference to the
variable `datarootdir'
which seems to be undefined.  Please make sure it is defined.

Not sure if that's a big deal or not but it doesn't sound completely
good. ;)

$ make
...
Wrote /home/derek/var/dvc-snapshot.tar.gz/lisp/auto-autoloads.el
Wrote /home/derek/var/dvc-snapshot.tar.gz/lisp/auto-autoloads.el
lispdir=/home/derek/opt/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/dvc srcdir=.
otherdirs="" xemacs -batch -no-autoloads -l ./dvc-build.el -f
package-maint-make-load
Loading /home/derek/var/dvc-snapshot.tar.gz/lisp/dvc-version.el...
Compiling /home/derek/var/dvc-snapshot.tar.gz/lisp/auto-autoloads.el...
Compiling /home/derek/var/dvc-snapshot.tar.gz/lisp/auto-autoloads.el...
Wrote /home/derek/var/dvc-snapshot.tar.gz/lisp/auto-autoloads.elc
Creating dummy dvc-autoloads.el...

Symbol's function definition is void: define-coding-system-alias
xemacs exiting
.
make[1]: *** [clean-some] Error 255
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/derek/var/dvc-snapshot.tar.gz/lisp'
make: *** [dvc] Error 2

That seems to be more of a problem. I haven't had a chance to look into
it yet but if you can suggest something I could try I'd be happy to!

Cheers,
Derek