From: Yidong Chong <cyd@MIT.EDU>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Martin Ebourne] Re: Small fix to configure.in in CVS
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:54:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061026165402.552417lpc5r4gkgs@webmail.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fyda26xu.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
>> Could you explain in greater detail what the problem in the existing
>> configure.in is, and how your change fixes it?
> The problem I had was that I was building to a prefix directory that
> included the word 'linux'. The emacs configure was preprocessing the
> Makefile through the C preprocessor, and this was substituting
> 'linux' to 1, thus making all the paths invalid.
I can't reproduce this:
mkdir ~/linux
cd emacs
./configure --prefix=/home/cyd/linux
make
make install
Compilation and installation proceeds as expected, with the emacs executable
installed in to /home/cyd/linux/bin, etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-26 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-26 19:49 [Martin Ebourne] Re: Small fix to configure.in in CVS Chong Yidong
2006-10-26 20:54 ` Yidong Chong [this message]
2006-10-27 9:10 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-28 1:18 ` Miles Bader
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