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From: Jason Earl <jearl@notengoamigos.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help with installing Emacs 23(CVS) to a custom path
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:25:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874omgb65k.fsf@notengoamigos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1841.1264026935.18930.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I was trying to install Emacs 23 from CVS on a Scientific Linux 4
> machine and ran into some problems. I am limited with write
> permissions to only my home area and the /scratchdisk. So I checked
> out the CVS tree in a directory in /scratchdisk and built emacs using
>
> $ ./configure
> $ make bootstrap
>
> Then I edited the Makefile to use ${prefix}=/scratchdisk/myfolder and ran
>
> $ make install
>
> But this fails as make tries to install _some_ files in /usr/local/share/
>
> How do I ask make to install everything in /scratchdisk/myfolder ?
> Also can I remove my build directory after `make install' succeeds?
> (short on disk space)
>
> Thanks for any pointers.

I think that you want to do:

./configure --prefix=/scratchdisk/myfolder

and then:

make bootstrap
make install

Jason


       reply	other threads:[~2010-01-21  1:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1841.1264026935.18930.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-21  1:25 ` Jason Earl [this message]
2010-01-21  6:12 ` Help with installing Emacs 23(CVS) to a custom path Tim X
2010-01-21  8:43   ` Suvayu Ali
2010-01-20 22:35 Suvayu Ali
2010-01-21  3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-21  4:36   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-01-21  7:57   ` Suvayu Ali
2010-01-21 15:53 ` Herbert J. Skuhra
2010-01-21 16:16   ` Suvayu Ali

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