Re: Creating (or not) the directories in --locallisppath

[Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> I'd tend to agree,


2013-06-20  Juanma Barranquero  <lekktu@gmail.com>

        * Makefile.in (install-arch-indep): Do not create the dirs
        in locallisppath; they are the user's responsibility.



=== modified file 'Makefile.in'
--- Makefile.in 2013-06-07 08:08:29 +0000
+++ Makefile.in 2013-06-20 23:14:29 +0000
@@ -548,13 +548,9 @@
 ## Note that the Makefiles in the etc directory are potentially useful
 ## in an installed Emacs, so should not be excluded.

-## I'm not sure creating locallisppath here serves any useful purpose.
-## If it has the default value, then the later write_subdir commands
-## will ensure all these components exist.
-## This will only do something if locallisppath has a non-standard value.
-## Is it really Emacs's job to create those directories?
-## Should we also be ensuring they contain subdirs.el files?
-## It would be easy to do, just use write_subdir.
+## We used to create locallisppath, but if it points to non-standard
+## locations, is not really Emacs's job to create these directories,
+## so it is no longer done.

 ## Note that we use tar instead of plain old cp -R/-r because the latter
 ## is apparently not portable (even in 2012!).
@@ -564,12 +560,6 @@
 ## See also these comments from 2004 about cp -r working fine:
 ## http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-11/msg00005.html
 install-arch-indep: lisp leim install-info install-man
${INSTALL_ARCH_INDEP_EXTRA}
- umask 022 ; \
- locallisppath='${locallisppath}'; \
- IFS=:; \
- for d in $$locallisppath; do \
-  ${MKDIR_P} "$(DESTDIR)$$d"; \
- done
  -set ${COPYDESTS} ; \
  unset CDPATH; \
  $(set_installuser); \