When building a self contained Mac OS X app, the site-lisp dir that gets inserted into `load-path` is not very useful, since it points to the Emacs.app in `nextstep/` where emacs was compiled. For example: "/Users/build/workspace/Emacs-Multi-Build/label/mavericks/emacs-source/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp" I think the site lisp path should be in `/Library/emacs` instead. Here is a patch to do just that (created with `git format-patch`, is that convenient? I don't know what works best in these cases). I patched the trunk, but on reflection, it seems like this should go in the 24 branch, too. -David From c20e8816f3905fa3ec6f82a7f566f7ce32dc178b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Caldwell Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:31:36 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] configure.ac: Fix site-lisp paths with NS self-contained apps. * configure.ac (HAVE_NS): When self-contained, set datarootdir to /Library so PATH_SITELOADSEARCH path points there instead of inside the Emacs.app build dir. --- configure.ac | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 68291b8..3e44a93 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -1872,6 +1872,8 @@ if test "${HAVE_NS}" = yes; then mandir="\${ns_appresdir}/man" lispdir="\${ns_appresdir}/lisp" INSTALL_ARCH_INDEP_EXTRA= + # This is so PATH_SITELOADSEARCH gets set to /Library/emacs/... + datarootdir=/Library fi NS_OBJC_OBJ="nsterm.o nsfns.o nsmenu.o nsselect.o nsimage.o $ns_fontfile" -- 2.2.2