From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Masterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: 31 Dec 2002 12:05:48 -0800 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <56cfb0e3.0212041458.5eab182a@posting.google.com> <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 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041365473 10502 80.91.224.249 (31 Dec 2002 20:11:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 20:11:13 +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 18TSjG-0002iy-00 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 21:11:10 +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 18TSie-0005NC-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 15:10:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!ps01-chi1.MISMATCH!chi1.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!news.airnews.net!cabal12.airnews.net!cabal11.airnews.net!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 25 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108630 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:5160 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5160 >>>>> Luis Fernandes writes: >>>>> "dmaster" == David Masterson writes: dmaster> The basic problem with this is that, unless you have a dmaster> program like Stow to create the symlink farm, it will require dmaster> that you modify your PATH(s) to include the packages that you dmaster> install. > Only /usr/local/bin needs to be in the user's path. After installing > emacs, I manually make the links from /usr/local/bin to > /usr/local/emacs-21.1/bin. "make install" can easily make the links > from /usr/local/bin to the actual package directory. We're saying the same thing. In your case, you manually make the links. In my case, I'd use Stow or Pkglink to create the links. You wouldn't want "make install" to do the links because it could wind up overwriting the links from a previous install of the package. Sometimes you want that, but sometimes you don't -- best to let a separate program (like Stow) help you uninstall the old version and install the new version into /usr/local. -- David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc. Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA