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* MacOSX installation suggestions.
@ 2003-01-05 12:26 Jan D.
  2003-01-06  7:21 ` Steven Tamm
  2003-01-06 21:51 ` Andrew Choi
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jan D. @ 2003-01-05 12:26 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hello.

In the mac/INSTALL file it says twice that make install must be made as
root.  This is an error, I have never done make install as root, and
if you just have write permission, this works fine (as it does with
the other Emacs configurations).  I dont think documentation casually
should require you to be root to install things, when no such
requirement exists.  It discurages the installation of Emacs under
your own user.  I would change that to "make install requires that
you have write permission in the destination directories" or something
like that.  Or not write anything at all.

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.

Thanks,

	Jan D.

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2003-01-05 12:26 MacOSX installation suggestions Jan D.
2003-01-06  7:21 ` Steven Tamm
2003-01-06 11:07   ` Jan D.
2003-01-07  5:52     ` Steven Tamm
2003-01-07 17:54       ` Jan D.
2003-01-06 21:51 ` Andrew Choi

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