Re: MacOSX installation suggestions.

[Steven Tamm <steventamm@mac.com>]

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