From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: removing old installations Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:34:54 -0700 Message-ID: <87ei2hizlt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309023403 29699 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2011 17:36:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:36:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 25 19:36:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QaWmd-0003Au-Mm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:36:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53602 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QaWmc-0005kR-Eu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:36:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41038) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QaWlD-0005kH-2O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QaWlC-0007HB-06 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:58539) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QaWlB-0007H4-Q6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QaWl9-0002WU-MO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:35:07 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-227-187-115.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([71.227.187.115]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:35:07 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by c-71-227-187-115.hsd1.wa.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:35:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-227-187-115.hsd1.wa.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZBslM4v7IAbfImpcuFngE0r7h2o= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:81439 Archived-At: I'm running the Ubuntu repository version of emacs (23.2.1) on Natty. In the past I've tried compiling both emacs 24 and emacs 23 myself on this machine, before deciding it was unnecessary and just using the repository version. As near as I can tell I've cleared the old 24 and 23 installations out of my system, but leftover files are still interfering with byte compilation in my present system. Makefiles in external packages like gnus or org-mode set the executable to "emacs" (ie, no full path). There are no other "emacs" executables on my path, but still I need to change the makefiles to specify "/usr/bin/emacs", or else I pick up weird bits from emacs 24, and my compiled files behave strangely (I can provide more details). Even with the full path to emacs specified, I get these warnings with each byte compilation: Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp' does not exist. Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' does not exist. All my site-lisp directories are under /usr/share/emacs or /usr/share/emacs23, and I don't know what configuration or startup files are telling it to look under /usr/local/share. Given that no other "emacs" executables are on my system (at least, to the best of my knowledge, and I spent a while rooting them out), what other leftover files could be confusing my present installation? Thanks! Eric