From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ns build symlinks all libexec programs into bin directory Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 12:39:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6843BF26-8BB7-4C5A-AD57-FCA4A0E7927D@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337013569 11089 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2012 16:39:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 16:39:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jan =?utf-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 14 18:39:28 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1STyIx-0005UM-BB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 18:39:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44278 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STyIw-0007Bc-Q7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 12:39:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47753) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STyIp-0006xl-Tb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 12:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STyIk-0003QE-3o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 12:39:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:52861) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STyIj-0003Q8-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 12:39:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STyIh-0000XH-Oq; Mon, 14 May 2012 12:39:11 -0400 X-Spook: embassy ARPA insurgency M-14 Al Jazeera Echelon condor X-Ran: 0d[zDLuZ[~GG`EOT.\l@N"^R~b\7Yf*hU"}S/o2(sXtmKWpleh11q.D6~i\B-\:E9cKhuB X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <6843BF26-8BB7-4C5A-AD57-FCA4A0E7927D@swipnet.se> ("Jan =?utf-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv=22's?= message of "Sun, 13 May 2012 08:27:58 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150481 Archived-At: Jan Dj=C3=A4rv wrote: > Thus, PATH_EXEC points to libexec in nextstep/Emacs.app, but when > Emacs.app is installed (say on another machine), that values is not > valid. Hence the links into bin as bin is in exec-path (derived from > invocation directory and not by a compile time constant). Right, but if it can find its own bin/ directory, it can find ../libexec just as easily (and if it can't, why not just install everything to bin). I've just installed a simple ns_init_paths change that I think removes the need for the symlinks (seems to work on GNUstep anyway).