From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ryo" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Installing mew (editing Makefile.in) Date: 13 Sep 2006 12:34:11 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1158176051.025364.132680@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> References: <1156912134.588551.151490@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1157510143.072670.35310@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158176488 28754 80.91.229.2 (13 Sep 2006 19:41:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:41:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 13 21:41:26 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNabW-0006Fj-1h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:41:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNabV-0000ny-IW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:41:01 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.171.156.62 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1158176056 30096 127.0.0.1 (13 Sep 2006 19:34:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:34:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.01 (X11; Linux i686; U; en),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=128.171.156.62; posting-account=LBWHzQwAAAAlK4MtFb0Svk8BP5GZW6My Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141722 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37344 Archived-At: ken wrote: [. . .] > Thanks very much, Ryo. I hope mew works. I've just downloaded and > untarred mew-5.1 and know I need to edit the values of some variables in > Makefile.in: > > prefix=@prefix@ > exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@ > libdir=@libdir@ > datadir=@datadir@ > infodir=@infodir@ > > These are very much standard variables; I've installed emacs from a > tarball several times before and it's always been a guessing game, > trying to figure out what the values of these should be. This guessing > game is complicated a bit more this time because mew is to work with an > installation of emacs which was installed, not for the entire > machine/system, but just for one user. I.e., emacs v.22.0.50.1 was > installed under a user's $HOME just for the use of this one user. Brave you, Ken. :) I've given up installing emacs for myself for a long time, so I'm afraid I can't help you here. I still install small packages from tarballs or sources from time to time, but big ones like emacs and TeX are too time-consuming to me. I use Debian GNU/Linux, where most things are available in the form of binary packages. Add-ons to emacs (such as mew) are provided as separate packages, which are installed for various versions emacs (xemacs, emacs20, emacs21, etc.) automatically. I know this doesn't install things under your home directory. Anyway, I don't know if it's of any help to you, but I found elisp files and their byte-compiled versions of mew in /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/mew/ . I hope experts on emacs will help you. Regards, Ryo