help: make install question

help: make install question

[Tom Hu]

Hi,

I built emacs 21.2 from the source. 

If I copy src/emacs* file only to a private directory, it does not run
from that directory. 

I wonder what else files I have to copy to my private directory and can
make emacs* run as normal.

Note: I can not do "make install" because I work at the multiple user
server environment.

Thanks,

Tom Hu

Re: help: make install question

[Peter Wu]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Hu <tomhu@cisco.com> writes:

    Tom> Hi, I built emacs 21.2 from the source.

    Tom> If I copy src/emacs* file only to a private directory, it does
    Tom> not run from that directory.

    Tom> I wonder what else files I have to copy to my private directory
    Tom> and can make emacs* run as normal.

    Tom> Note: I can not do "make install" because I work at the multiple
    Tom> user server environment.

Does installing Emacs on your server affect others' jobs?

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Re: help: make install question

[Jacob Bunk Nielsen]

Tom Hu <tomhu@cisco.com> writes:

> If I copy src/emacs* file only to a private directory, it does not run
> from that directory. 
>
> I wonder what else files I have to copy to my private directory and can
> make emacs* run as normal.

You could take a look into Makefile, but that's probably not really a
good solution.

> Note: I can not do "make install" because I work at the multiple user
> server environment.

Why don't you just install Emacs in your own home directory? When you
run configure you could specify '--prefix=~/emacs'. That would install
Emacs in a directory called 'emacs' under your home directory when you
get to the 'make install' part.

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A fool must now and then be right by chance.

Re: help: make install question

[Kai Großjohann]

Tom Hu <tomhu@cisco.com> writes:

> Note: I can not do "make install" because I work at the multiple user
> server environment.

Hm?  I just do "./configure --prefix=$HOME/sw" and then my
installation (in ~/sw) does not bother anyone else.

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