Re: Cocoa Emacs

[Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert@gmail.com>]

On Aug 22, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Nick Roberts wrote:

>> A way to get the best of both worlds would be to add an ns-appdir
>> configure option which defaults to ./nextstep but could be set to,
>> e.g., /Applications.  Such an option was there before, but I took it
>> out during the process of simplifying the build and getting rid of  
>> the
>> extra compile script we used to have.  Perhaps now would be a good
>> time to add it back in though.
>
> Doesn't
>
> configure --exec-prefix=/Applications
>
> do this?

Does it?  Exec-prefix has a different meaning (where do bare binaries  
go, not an application package), which is why the Carbon port and I  
propose the NS one as well use a distinct "appdir" config option.