* 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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* Re: MacOSX installation suggestions.
2003-01-05 12:26 MacOSX installation suggestions Jan D.
@ 2003-01-06 7:21 ` Steven Tamm
2003-01-06 11:07 ` Jan D.
2003-01-06 21:51 ` Andrew Choi
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Steven Tamm @ 2003-01-06 7:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 04:26 AM, Jan D. wrote:
> 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.
It depends on the configuration. If the configuration is to place it
into /usr/local, then the correct permissions are there. However on my
machine, the non-root user doesn't have permission to write into
/usr/share, which would cause the installation to fail. Moreover,
installing into /usr is probably not the best idea because Apple's
system updates have a nasty habit of overwriting them (as it did
between 10.1 and 10.2).
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.
> 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.
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).
-Steven
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* Re: MacOSX installation suggestions.
2003-01-06 7:21 ` Steven Tamm
@ 2003-01-06 11:07 ` Jan D.
2003-01-07 5:52 ` Steven Tamm
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jan D. @ 2003-01-06 11:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
> 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.
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* Re: MacOSX installation suggestions.
2003-01-06 11:07 ` Jan D.
@ 2003-01-07 5:52 ` Steven Tamm
2003-01-07 17:54 ` Jan D.
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Steven Tamm @ 2003-01-07 5:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 03:07 AM, Jan D. wrote:
> 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.
I just checked it in.
The option is --enable-carbon-app with the default directory as
/Application. It takes an optional argument as the directory, so you
could
./configure --enable-carbon-app=$HOME/Applications
-Steven
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* Re: MacOSX installation suggestions.
2003-01-07 5:52 ` Steven Tamm
@ 2003-01-07 17:54 ` Jan D.
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jan D. @ 2003-01-07 17:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
>
> I just checked it in.
>
> The option is --enable-carbon-app with the default directory as
> /Application. It takes an optional argument as the directory, so you
> could
> ./configure --enable-carbon-app=$HOME/Applications
Works great. The configure was not updated though. It was not updated for
the previous change either (Check for nl_langinfo).
I updated it and checked it in.
Thanks,
Jan D.
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* Re: MacOSX installation suggestions.
2003-01-05 12:26 MacOSX installation suggestions Jan D.
2003-01-06 7:21 ` Steven Tamm
@ 2003-01-06 21:51 ` Andrew Choi
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Choi @ 2003-01-06 21:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
"Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
> 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.
A more precise description is always desirable. Please feel free to
modify mac/INSTALL.
> 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.
Where should Emacs.app be put? Should this location be a new parameter
to `configure'? Not everyone would want to put it in /Applications or
want to copy it at all.
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