From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MacOSX installation suggestions. Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:07:37 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1089BE0E-2167-11D7-A5BA-00039363E640@swipnet.se> References: <7A846F7B-2147-11D7-91D4-00039390AB82@mac.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041963918 13634 80.91.224.249 (7 Jan 2003 18:25:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:25:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18VyPa-0003XG-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 19:25:14 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18VyUG-0001m1-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 19:30:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18VxjQ-0001u5-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 12:41:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18VZrk-0006vb-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 11:12:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18VZrA-0006s9-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 11:12:08 -0500 Original-Received: from gnudist.gnu.org ([199.232.41.7]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18VYXB-0002s6-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 09:47:21 -0500 Original-Received: from stubby.bodenonline.com ([193.201.16.94]) by gnudist.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18VVCn-00047Z-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 06:14:05 -0500 Original-Received: from accessno42.bodenonline.com (IDENT:root@accessno42.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.44]) h06C3bdw001933; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:03:37 +0100 Original-To: Steven Tamm In-Reply-To: <7A846F7B-2147-11D7-91D4-00039390AB82@mac.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10528 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10528 > The point is taken. I will point out that if installing into /usr (or > possibly some other directory), one might need to use sudo. I'll also > document the suggestion about not using /usr. Thanks. >> I do think make install should install Emacs.app also. Now one has to >> manually copy it after make install. It doesn't seem right that make >> install doesn't install everything. > > Makes sense. I just put in some changes to get the Application to build > in a separate directory, so having it install into /Application would be > nice (and pretty much done); it would make the make-package script a > little easier. I would like to suggest a separate configure option, that defaults to /Application (--appdir?). If doing a build and install as a regular user, one probably don't wan't it in /Application. > What do people think about placing this mac-specfic stuff in a new > Makefile in the mac/ directory v placing it in the src/ directory? I was > just going to place it in the src directory because it's not large enough > to justify all the configuration changes needed (unless there are > volunteers). Would a make in src call the Makefile in the mac directory? Jan D.