From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Cc: 14513@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14513: 24.3.50; Site load-path pieces differ in MSYS build
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 22:16:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83li6w46t1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ip20jnoh.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
> From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 21:02:54 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > This is all still true, except that some of the directories are not
> > immediately below the root of the installation tree, but somewhat
> > deeper. E.g., what was previously in ROOT/lisp is now in
> > ROOT/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp. Why is that difference important?
>
> It is not, the OP's talking about the missing "../site-lisp" part.
It's not missing, it's in ROOT/share/emacs/site-lisp now.
> > Did you really have files in "%emacs_dir%/../site-lisp"? If you did,
> > you'd probably be the first one I know about who did. Most people
> > don't even know that directory is looked in.
>
> FWIW, I use a directory structure which relies on a ../site-lisp to be
> accessible by multiple Emacs versions installed in parallel, just like
> on UN*Xy boxes.
Unix boxes use exactly the directory structure that is now encoded in
epaths.h. So we got closer to Unix, not farther.
> > If you do have files in this directory, you'll have to copy them into
> > each new tree, if you really want the threes to be separate, not under
> > a single root. But you'll probably need that anyway, because Lisp
> > files had better be compiled by the Emacs version that runs them.
>
> When was that change announced? It used to be sufficient to compile
> them with the oldest Emacs version (or not at all).
I said "probably" and "had better". My gray hair taught me not to
trust old *.elc files, especially since site-lisp is home to all kind
of 3rd party packages that aren't as disciplined as the bundled ones.
YMMV.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-30 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-30 13:46 bug#14513: 24.3.50; Site load-path pieces differ in MSYS build Richard Copley
2013-05-30 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-30 17:56 ` Richard Copley
2013-05-30 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-30 19:02 ` Achim Gratz
2013-05-30 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-05-30 19:57 ` Achim Gratz
2013-05-30 20:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-30 21:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-31 19:01 ` Achim Gratz
2013-05-31 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-30 19:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-30 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-30 19:20 ` Richard Copley
[not found] ` <CAPM58ojwzkw8kxKc8P4G0mdsJgmYmo-ZxSbcN1F2J+QVyFaHMw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-05-30 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-30 20:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-30 20:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-30 21:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-31 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-31 9:52 ` Richard Copley
2013-05-31 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-31 12:55 ` Richard Copley
2013-06-01 16:04 ` Richard Copley
2013-06-01 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-01 17:06 ` Richard Copley
[not found] ` <CAPM58og6ySbmR28vQH+m7dp-zYgVwrrYqthO6_ZfGodV9Si23w@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <8361xx20lb.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-06-01 18:00 ` Richard Copley
2013-06-02 11:33 ` Richard Copley
2013-06-04 18:27 ` Richard Copley
2013-06-04 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-04 20:14 ` Richard Copley
2013-06-04 20:21 ` Glenn Morris
2013-06-07 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-07 17:48 ` Richard Copley
2013-06-04 23:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-06-06 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-07 1:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-06-07 6:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <83ip20469l.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-05-30 19:29 ` bug#14514: Fwd: " Richard Copley
2013-05-30 19:49 ` bug#14513: " Richard Copley
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