From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ajanta Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:14:01 GMT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <121220021616385181%ajanta@no.spam> 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> <091220021652087216%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021101520860%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> <5l65u0i8zj.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220022053507599%ajanta@no.spam> <84k7ifo3s2.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039731763 19637 80.91.224.249 (12 Dec 2002 22:22:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 22:22:43 +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 18Mbj7-00056U-00 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:22:41 +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 18Mbh5-00055v-0B for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:20:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssrv26.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Thoth/1.5.10 (Carbon/OS X) Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.37.188.72 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: newssrv26.news.prodigy.com 1039734841 ST000 67.37.188.72 (Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:14:01 CST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:14:01 CST X-UserInfo1: TSU[@I_AOHVORRXXZROVO]@@QB^FBL@MAHU^_BAMEH]TCDYG^WHEAE[YETZPIWWI[FCIZA^NBFXZ_D[BFNTCNVPDTNTKHWXKB@X^B_OCJLPZ@ET_O[G\XSG@E\G[ZKVLBL^CJINM@I_KVIOR\T_M_AW_M[_BWU_HFA_]@A_A^SGFAUDE_DFTMQPFWVW[QPJN Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:348751 gnu.emacs.help:108065 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:4596 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4596 Kai Großjohann wrote: > At our site, we have a directory for software with subdirs for each > program, and subsubdirs for each version. For example, > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/sw/emacs/21.2 > > is sufficient to configure Emacs in such a way that subsequent `make' > and `make install' can be undone easily by just removing the > directory /usr/sw/emacs/21.2. This works because Emacs is the only > program in that directory. > > It's a very simple approach, but it works well enough for us. I am a beginner at this, so let me understand step-by-step. If you ./configure with the above option, make, make install, will everything remain in /usr/sw/emacs/21.2? Where do the binaries go? If it is /uar/sw/bin, I can imagine you can just put it in your path. However, if it is /usr/sw/emacs/21.2/bin, then do you have to modify the path each time you install a program? (I don't see either as a big deal, I am just trying to figure out what actually happens.) Thanks. A