From: chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org Development" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 01:48:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9FE22079-7C57-4F7F-877C-7F6BC0DF7B23@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d2u9fr4a.fsf@gnu.org>
On 04 Apr 2013, at 23:06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> It would be important if it were true, but I don't think it's true.
> The way epaths.h is generated from epaths.in on Posix platforms leaves
> the root of the Emacs installation tree (specified via --prefix)
> hard-coded into the binary, and Emacs (AFAIK) currently doesn't
> support relocation of the installation tree on Posix systems. By
> contrast, on Windows relocation is a matter of routine. So I cannot
> use the epaths-force target of the top-level Makefile anyway.
I don't know if this is helpful to you or not, but the ns port
(--with-ns) features a relocatable tree. It seems to be implemented
in src/nsterm.m, functions ns_etc_directory(), ns_exec_path(), and
ns_load_path().
~Chad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-05 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-04 17:45 Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-04 22:51 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-04 23:03 ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-05 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-05 8:48 ` chad [this message]
2013-04-05 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-05 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-05 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-05 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-05 15:20 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-05 17:32 ` chad
2013-04-04 23:16 ` Andy Moreton
2013-04-05 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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