From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Installing mew (editing Makefile.in) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:32:26 +0900 Message-ID: <87psdzgzyd.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <1156912134.588551.151490@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1157510143.072670.35310@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158186780 31888 80.91.229.2 (13 Sep 2006 22:33:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:33:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 14 00:32:58 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 1GNdHk-0008W0-MG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:32:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNdHk-0007nd-3D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:32:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNdHZ-0007n1-Bf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:32:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNdHW-0007m2-DL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:32:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNdHW-0007lz-8m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:32:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [203.216.5.72] (helo=smtp02.dentaku.gol.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GNdJJ-0007wW-DU; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:34:25 -0400 Original-Received: from 203-216-98-149.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.98.149] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1GNdHS-00066k-Aw; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:32:30 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C55772F4D; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:32:26 +0900 (JST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (ken's message of "Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:04:17 -0400") Original-Lines: 25 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@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:37353 Archived-At: 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. The configure script will derive all those various specific variables using the prefix you give it. -Miles -- 80% of success is just showing up. --Woody Allen