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From: "Arsen Arsenović" <arsen@aarsen.me>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Retrieving the "include" directory for Emacs Modules
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 23:17:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <868qs7xt0h.fsf@aarsen.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ttbcdhwn.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 09 Dec 2024 16:56:24 +0200")

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 10:58:57 +0100
>> 
>> On my Mac, If I install emacs as a "formula" (i.e., not a s an app) things
>> seem installed as they should be.  OTOH the brew "cask" (which installs a
>> .app in the Application directory) seems to create something that Apple
>> likes, but that STILL may be told to have a pointer to the include
>> directory as it does to the data-directory.
>> 
>> This is obviously something that the brew folks should deal with, but the
>> notion of having a variable that tracks the include directory still has
>> merit.  At least as an extra guideline to people like the brew maintainers.
>
> As I tried to explain, if emacs-module.h is not installed in its
> intended place, we cannot know where it is installed.  We only know
> that from the default installation locations we have in our Makefiles,
> but if some distros modify that, we cannot know.
>
> And I still contend that the correct installation should put this file
> where all the other header files are, and then the compiler will
> always find it.  Users who don't want to fight the uphill battle
> against brew could simply copy the file to the compiler's include
> directory, and be done.

Could I suggest installing a .pc file alongside Emacs that describes
this also?  That way, if distros modify it, they have a method of
notifying consumers of the modification also.

Have a lovely day.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-12-22 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.624.1733687129.13738.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2024-12-09  9:58 ` Retrieving the "include" directory for Emacs Modules Marco Antoniotti
2024-12-09 14:56   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-09 15:50     ` Rudolf Schlatte
2024-12-09 22:10     ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-10  3:29       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-11  3:23         ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-11 13:01           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-19 23:50           ` Björn Bidar
     [not found]           ` <87ttazmdvc.fsf@>
2024-12-20  7:09             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-20  9:01               ` Basile Starynkevitch
2024-12-23  0:47               ` Björn Bidar
2024-12-20 15:41             ` Stefan Monnier
2024-12-23  1:00               ` Björn Bidar
     [not found]               ` <871pxzxlfe.fsf@>
2024-12-24  5:06                 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-12-24 12:36                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-24 15:30                     ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-24 16:38                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-24 20:39                         ` Björn Bidar
2024-12-22 22:17     ` Arsen Arsenović [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.81.1734714033.1948.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2024-12-21 20:04 ` Marco Antoniotti
2024-12-23 20:15   ` Björn Bidar
     [not found]   ` <6769c4ea.170a0220.d60c5.1423SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2024-12-23 20:56     ` Marco Antoniotti
2024-12-24  5:58       ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
     [not found] <mailman.87.1733936470.18564.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2024-12-13 11:43 ` Marco Antoniotti
2024-12-13 12:23   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <mailman.606.1733669386.12711.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2024-12-08 15:18 ` Marco Antoniotti
2024-12-08 15:29   ` Jean Louis
2024-12-08 15:36     ` Marco Antoniotti
2024-12-08 15:50       ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-08 16:36       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-08 16:30   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <mailman.77.1733590872.28947.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2024-12-08  9:59 ` Marco Antoniotti
2024-12-08 11:40   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-08 15:47     ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-08 16:39       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-08 16:48         ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-08 17:46           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-09 14:11             ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-07 16:27 Marco Antoniotti
2024-12-07 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-07 19:09 ` Björn Bidar

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