From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Precompiled Emacs Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 22:43:31 +0100 Message-ID: <5276C383.4020009@gmx.net> References: <87wqkpxnrm.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383515044 24073 80.91.229.3 (3 Nov 2013 21:44:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 21:44:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Jambunathan K To: Johan Andersson Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 03 22:44:07 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd5Sn-0002LP-Bx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 22:44:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46898 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd5Sm-0007Gg-Un for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:44:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60148) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd5SS-0007Fe-Ri for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:43:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd5SL-0005Yb-Hf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:43:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.19]:61115) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd5SK-0005YW-TV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:43:37 -0500 Original-Received: from marcie.lan ([188.100.170.200]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LcBvB-1W2Ymh2A2H-00jbHB for ; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 22:43:34 +0100 User-Agent: Postbox 3.0.8 (Macintosh/20130427) Original-Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:L+ldFlP812LD58unyCvS0DctwjrDVkXrXzsJ1T/EYBl0cqMZv82 0f8lZ+J1A4AzZ4aInB0m81CbQxoXjda3ix4T9+iwy0IKT6lktLWgAry2cP9ZcKT6LlG8Mct 7glaaSOmn46eth/QYn8M+pKi8iEN7Fqn7+bUMJa2xaEf8XRDn6qTsuMZH/Z85F/LTJvnJGH uCBlrmZqPix7Kk6THUZEQ== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.19 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94312 Archived-At: Johan Andersson wrote: > I've read the instructions in INSTALL, which are very good. I tried and did > a build with: > > $ ./configure --prefix emacs-install --without-all --without-x The assumption is that the argument of --prefix is the fully qualified directory name where Emacs is installed. If you omit --prefix, it will use /usr/local. Conventionally, people are expected to use values such as /usr/local/emacs or /opt/emacs or something. Kai