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: Mac OS X Installer Package Script Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:14:27 +0200 (MEST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200207050809.g6589JuM031350@stubby.bodenonline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025856900 17365 127.0.0.1 (5 Jul 2002 08:15:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 08:15:00 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17QOF2-0004Vy-00 for ; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 10:15:00 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17QOLQ-0000ob-00 for ; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 10:21:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17QOFH-00026a-00; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 04:15:15 -0400 Original-Received: from stubby.bodenonline.com ([213.115.192.62]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17QOEm-00023F-00 for ; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 04:14:45 -0400 Original-Received: from pc35.bodenonline.com (IDENT:root@pc35.bodenonline.com [195.196.29.227] (may be forged)) by stubby.bodenonline.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g6589JuM031350; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:09:20 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, akochoi@shaw.ca X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL0pre8] Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5501 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5501 ndrew Choi writes: > Hi, > I've just added the file mac/make-package to the CVS tree. > This is shell script contributed by Steven Tamm. When run, it creates > an Installer package file containing the files needed by Emacs. The > Installer application can then be used to install them. > Please test this and let me know if it works for you. I don't think it should run configure/make install. That is best done the "normal" way. This script does not allow any arguments to configure or make, or indeed, choice of make program to run. Some of us have shell scripts to run configure in a special way, that can't be done either with this script. It seems a bit much to have to build an installer and then run that just to install Emacs. I would prefer to have an option to configure where to install the application (/Application by default is fine), and then "make install" installs everything. A script to build an installer is cool, but I would not like for it to be mandatory. Oh, another thing, "make install" should not install an emacs executable in $prefix/bin, since that executable can't be run without crashing. Just my thoughts, Jan D.