From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Installing mew (editing Makefile.in) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:39:14 -0400 Message-ID: <450A0442.9090605@speakeasy.net> References: <1156912134.588551.151490@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1157510143.072670.35310@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> <87psdzgzyd.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87hczbgt0c.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4508AF57.9070905@speakeasy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158284441 14972 80.91.229.2 (15 Sep 2006 01:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 15 03:40:38 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 1GO2gw-00020R-By for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GO2gv-0004r1-SQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:40:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GO2gi-0004qh-QE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GO2gh-0004qV-9S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GO2gh-0004qS-57 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:40:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [69.17.117.10] (helo=mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GO2il-0008Ut-0f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:42:23 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 31913 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2006 01:40:13 -0000 Original-Received: from dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.0.27]) (gebser@[66.93.11.17]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 15 Sep 2006 01:40:12 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060725) Original-To: GNU Emacs List In-Reply-To: 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:37378 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > On 9/14/06, ken wrote: >> >> .... > > Er, well, they almost always have reasonable defaults. If you don't > know what the value should be, why not just let it pick whatever it > picks? It will always be something underneath the prefix you specify, > e.g., if you use --prefix=$HOME/linux, it will usually put executables > in $HOME/linux/bin, typical lisp files in > $HOME/linux/share/emacs/site-lisp, etc. When working with computers, I guess I much prefer a rational approach... sort of averse to wingin' it. > Now that I look at your message again, it sounds like you never > actually installed Emacs, and are running it out of the build > directory. .... Peter mentioned a similar concern. See my reply to him. > .... > > I suspect the right thing to do is specify a prefix like $HOME/linux, > and then if emacs isn't looking there, just add the resulting > site-lisp directory to the load-path variable in your .emacs file. Or I could "C-h v load-path", see where emacs thinks site-lisp is, and then just move the files there. Seems cleaner to me. Speaking of clean and load-path, where's the best place to trim out some of the (too many and unused) directories listed in load-path? Thanks for all the tips, ken PS. I remember now that long ago there wasn't a configure script... you just edited the Makefile to configure the variable for compiling. I guess some of those old brain cells woke up at the wrong time. -- One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. -- Chateaubriand (1768-1848)