From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rodney Sparapani Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 09:39:56 -0600 Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E0C744C.6040502@mcw.edu> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <061220020416350201%ajanta@no.spam> <071220021155280606%ajanta@no.spam> <5ld6obj8il.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> <5l65u0i8zj.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220022053507599%ajanta@no.spam> <121220021324043990%ajanta@no.spam> <171220021132381961%ajanta@no.spam> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041003988 4055 80.91.224.249 (27 Dec 2002 15:46:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 15:46:28 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Rwgr-00012x-00 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:46:25 +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 18Rwfz-0004OW-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 10:45:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.doit.wisc.edu!wiscnews.wiscnet.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: markov.biostat.mcw.edu Original-X-Trace: wiscnews.wiscnet.net 1041003597 23490 141.106.120.18 (27 Dec 2002 15:39:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@wiscnews.wiscnet.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Dec 2002 15:39:57 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108508 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5037 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5037 I don't think anyone would want to configure --prefix=/usr/local/emacs-21.3 If you do that, then you will have to either link everything (perhaps with stow) to where it really belongs or change all of your environment variables like PATH, MANPATH, etc. The solution that fink uses is much better since it creates a /sw directory so you only have to change your environment variables once. -- Rodney Sparapani Medical College of Wisconsin Sr. Biostatistician Patient Care & Outcomes Research rsparapa@mcw.edu http://www.mcw.edu/pcor Was 'Name That Tune' rigged? WWLD -- What Would Lombardi Do