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: MacOSX installation suggestions. Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 13:26:26 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041769705 26879 80.91.224.249 (5 Jan 2003 12:28:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:28:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18V9t9-0006zL-00 for ; Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:28:23 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18V9wj-0003zX-00 for ; Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:32:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18V9tQ-0000YV-03 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2003 07:28:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18V9sy-0000Ro-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2003 07:28:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18V9sS-00006x-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2003 07:27:41 -0500 Original-Received: from stubby.bodenonline.com ([193.201.16.94]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18V9s3-0008GP-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2003 07:27:15 -0500 Original-Received: from accessno42.bodenonline.com (IDENT:root@accessno42.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.44])h05DMddw017898 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 14:22:39 +0100 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10493 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10493 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.