From: Kin Cho <ignore-this-prefixkin@techie.com>
Subject: environment variables for running emacs
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:09:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7illerznrw.fsf@neoscale.com> (raw)
Hi,
I'm trying to run emacs on a machine without first installing
emacs on that machine. The reason being the machine has a small
and very slow flash memory disk, and there are many of these
machines that I'd like to run emacs on them.
Other than having a small and slow disk, these machines run
normal Gnu/Linux with networking.
So on machine foo I mounted bar:/ as /bar. Machine bar
has a normal emacs installation. On machine foo I setenv as
follows (from (info " (emacs) General Variables")):
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/bar/usr/lib:/bar/usr/X11R6/lib
EMACSDATA=/bar/usr/share/emacs/21.2/etc/
EMACSLOADPATH=/bar/usr/share/emacs/21.2/site-lisp:/bar/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
Now on foo I run /bar/usr/local/bin/emacs and it gives the
following error:
Warning: arch-dependent data dir (/usr/local/libexec/emacs/21.3/i686-pc-linux-gnu/) does not exist.
Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/21.3/site-lisp' does not exist.
Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' does not exist.
Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/21.3/leim' does not exist.
Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/21.3/lisp' does not exist.
Cannot open load file: term/x-win
So it appears that on a Gnu/Linux system, setting the variables
EMACSDATA EMACSLOADPATH aren't sufficient to run emacs.
If this is not a bug but a unsupported feature, please consider
this post a feature request to a variable such as EMACSROOT
whereby emacs can be started without a prior installation.
-kin
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