From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>,
"Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
"Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>,
"Yuri Khan" <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:31:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM9PR09MB49770C60CC5567CC0570E3E796F79@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s198g2s.fsf@dick> (dick's message of "Tue, 10 Aug 2021 11:39:07 -0400")
dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com> writes:
> 0. git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git $HOME/emacs
> 1. git checkout -b dev
> 2. ./autogen.sh ; ./configure ; make -j4
> 3. alias emacs=$HOME/emacs/src/emacs
> 4. Live out your dreams
>
> Apart from betraying a fundamental misunderstanding about UNIX's reification
> of installed binaries, your dream scenario couldn't realize anyway because
> apparently you lack the system privileges to even `make install` (which is a
> crucial but missing step in your previous message).
>
> YK> As it is, I merely project it onto people who do.
>
> This, I think, is one of the unspoken benefits of keeping emacs development
> via mailing list patches and debbugs as arcane and awkward as possible.
One can configure with PREFIX being somewhere in the home dir, or
elsewhere with write priviledges, and on our home/personal computers it
is not of a problem anyway, but still; why doing it and spending time
compressing/decompressing when it works just fine from src dir.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-10 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-08 15:40 Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-08 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-08 18:53 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-08 20:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-08 22:43 ` dick
2021-08-08 23:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-09 0:43 ` dick
2021-08-09 3:13 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-08-09 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-09 18:33 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-08-09 18:49 ` dick
2021-08-09 22:11 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-08-10 8:24 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-10 8:31 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-09 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-09 22:14 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-08-10 11:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 8:10 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-10 12:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 13:43 ` Yuri Khan
2021-08-10 14:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 15:10 ` Yuri Khan
2021-08-10 15:39 ` dick
2021-08-10 15:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-10 17:31 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2021-08-10 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 17:25 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-08-10 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 18:06 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-08-10 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 20:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-11 2:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-11 5:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-11 13:42 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-08-11 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-11 18:21 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-08-12 5:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-10 17:35 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-08-10 17:24 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-10 17:22 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-10 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-09 6:52 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-09 11:50 ` dick
2021-08-09 15:27 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-19 9:25 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-19 20:24 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-19 21:43 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-19 21:47 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-19 21:59 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-20 0:21 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-20 21:36 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-21 1:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-21 2:46 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-21 3:12 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-21 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-21 6:48 ` tomas
2021-08-21 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-21 7:19 ` symlinks and W32 [was: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory] tomas
2021-08-21 14:15 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-21 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-21 19:12 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-21 14:34 ` Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory Arthur Miller
2021-08-21 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-21 19:10 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-21 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-21 20:25 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-22 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-25 10:47 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-25 22:13 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-26 9:42 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-26 15:58 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-20 10:23 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-08-20 12:47 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-23 9:14 ` Max Brieiev
2021-08-24 21:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-25 11:13 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-25 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-25 14:55 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-25 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-26 0:16 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-26 4:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-26 15:38 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-26 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-26 21:40 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-25 22:29 ` Arthur Miller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-08-12 2:44 No Wayman
2021-08-12 12:41 ` dick
2021-08-12 14:48 ` No Wayman
2021-08-12 16:24 ` dick
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