From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Installing mew (editing Makefile.in) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:24:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4508A122.7070902@speakeasy.net> References: <1156912134.588551.151490@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1157510143.072670.35310@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> <87psdzgzyd.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158193513 16791 80.91.229.2 (14 Sep 2006 00:25:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:25:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 14 02:25:12 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 1GNf2T-0004KB-Dp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:25:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNf2S-0004Zb-SV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:25:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNf2G-0004YV-Kk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:24:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNf2E-0004YB-RD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:24:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNf2E-0004Y8-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:24:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [69.17.117.5] (helo=mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GNf43-0000Aw-Tb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:26:48 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 1459 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2006 00:24:52 -0000 Original-Received: from dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.0.27]) (gebser@[66.93.11.17]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 14 Sep 2006 00:24:52 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060725) Original-To: GNU Emacs List In-Reply-To: <87psdzgzyd.fsf@catnip.gol.com> 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:37355 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > ken writes: >> 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: > > No, you _shouldn't_ be editting Makefile.in, you should be running the > configure script which will do all that stuff for you... > > E.g.: > > ./configure > > or: > > ./configure --prefix=$HOME > > to install everything underneath your home directory. Really? Even though the emacs executable is in $HOME/linux/tarballs/emacs/src/ and the source and byte-compiled lisp files are in $HOME/linux/tarballs/emacs/lisp/? Doesn't mew need to find certain emacs files and vice versa? Or does ./configure figure out where everything is? > The configure script will derive all those various specific variables > using the prefix you give it. Say I'm not optimistic about everything going right.... Is there anyway to do a check before doing the make? Thanks for the tip. ken > > -Miles >