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ken <gebser@speakeasy.net> writes:
> Really?  Even though the emacs executable is in
> $HOME/linux/tarballs/emacs/src/ and the source and byte-compiled lisp
> files are in $HOME/linux/tarballs/emacs/lisp/?  Doesn't mew need to find
> certain emacs files and vice versa?  Or does ./configure figure out
> where everything is?

Typically it _tries_ to find out, but has options you can use to specify
anything that's too weird.

I don't know about mew in particular, but ./configure --help should
show most of the options you can use.

-Miles

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