From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 12123@debbugs.gnu.org, yandros@MIT.EDU, eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Subject: bug#12123:
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 22:00:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <828v4tok6m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831uamcelo.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 07 Apr 2013 22:42:11 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Btw, even if these conditions _are_ true, I still don't see how can we
> find /usr/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIG/, /usr/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp/
> using the fact that Emacs was invoked from /usr/bin/. Which part of
> the code knows about VERSION and CONFIG part and looks for them? All I
> see is that we look for lib-src and etc, but that's only good to detect
> that we are being run from the build directory, not from where we are
> installed. What am I missing?
Well yes, that's the point of this report. No-one has implemented a
relocatable Emacs installation for general POSIX platforms. Solving
those problems is part of it. A relocatable Emacs would not be installed
as you describe above, it would (I imagine) be installed similar to the
way the NS build is, under a single top-level directory.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-08 2:00 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <probmtut73.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
2013-04-05 17:27 ` bug#12123: chad
2013-04-05 17:32 ` bug#12123: Glenn Morris
2013-04-05 17:48 ` bug#12123: Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-06 6:47 ` bug#12123: Paul Eggert
2013-04-06 8:22 ` bug#12123: Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-06 20:35 ` bug#12123: Paul Eggert
2013-04-07 2:42 ` bug#12123: Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-07 18:32 ` bug#12123: Glenn Morris
2013-04-07 19:06 ` bug#12123: Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-07 19:42 ` bug#12123: Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-08 2:00 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2013-04-08 2:44 ` bug#12123: Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-08 2:02 ` bug#12123: Glenn Morris
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