From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Suvayu Ali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help with installing Emacs 23(CVS) to a custom path Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:57:49 -0800 Message-ID: <4B5808FD.70005@gmail.com> References: <4B57854D.1050008@gmail.com> <838wbs6rj2.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264060722 6920 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2010 07:58:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:58:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 21 08:58:31 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NXrvz-0006jY-FH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:58:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33618 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXrw0-0002gw-0U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:58:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXrvT-0002gl-W2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:58:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXrvP-0002gQ-7Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:57:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42630 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXrvO-0002gN-Ea for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:57:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pw0-f47.google.com ([209.85.160.47]:60211) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NXrvM-0000a1-Kk; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:57:52 -0500 Original-Received: by pwj10 with SMTP id 10so4180363pwj.26 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:57:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1bzySRvKFPvs9jrtrwZx5QWavz1IYFKVfpB/YOkN744=; b=PGeUPoKdqQnvljda59KEArHuihnICfr0X7Xz3naI976zwzod5j/u1zw3l3E8/I5Kk6 mA0pHsL3iPbKG4uqmJDGG0glkqZEYERHTUfm+VDikU/cG6VJ015uG7Bma8s0d0vf43+g nnAETzRNmIkZn+Zv9uL4e1XbgZQg0fVMH/7qM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=iwQGY+y3t2fFPOKwkpQnUjUUSk8WFo5txk30KfCRqdYyEs4dcTuIf0xEWCwbGXCTnZ 5CKt3JZC6OMnqmv5rDSSDstWRz4cdRkPFJdQ8hkwBENa+39ROffohNRT2ZKLRxiizbCP QQ27UbeKmF6CsBNUNmy4w3c+eXA2lCnD5YZ7o= Original-Received: by 10.141.187.29 with SMTP id o29mr815586rvp.48.1264060671580; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:57:51 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from bhishma.kuru (d216-232-0-68.bchsia.telus.net [216.232.0.68]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 22sm809619pzk.2.2010.01.20.23.57.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:57:50 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-3.fc11 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0 In-Reply-To: <838wbs6rj2.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:71339 Archived-At: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 07:55 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:35:57 -0800 >> From: Suvayu Ali >> >> $ ./configure >> $ make bootstrap >> >> Then I edited the Makefile to use ${prefix}=/scratchdisk/myfolder and ran >> >> $ make install >> >> But this fails as make tries to install _some_ files in /usr/local/share/ >> >> How do I ask make to install everything in /scratchdisk/myfolder ? > > $ make distclean > $ ./configure prefix=/scratchdisk/myfolder > $ make > $ make install > >> Also can I remove my build directory after `make install' succeeds? >> (short on disk space) > > Yes. Thank you Eli and Lennart. Alls well now. :) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.