From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Precompiled Emacs Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:30:38 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87wqkpxnrm.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383514515 18724 80.91.229.3 (3 Nov 2013 21:35:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 21:35:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 03 22:35:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1Vd5KK-0005X3-A7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 22:35:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46877 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vd5KJ-0005E8-UV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:35:19 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="189748f827f5005aa08ac3cba2786117"; logging-data="21742"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/yh/W2cRyFo+mZOUJHRgh/JPwdWHGbhcg=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wJ8C/RhDcDS/yOctpFrMUgDsrxs= sha1:31F4I4XsAU5/E2ujDrVKi4i6TkM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202040 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:94311 Archived-At: Johan Andersson writes: > I've read the instructions in INSTALL, which are very good. I tried and did > a build with: > > $ ./configure --prefix emacs-install --without-all --without-x That prefix is not doing what you think it is. > $ make boostrap > $ make install > > The installation works just fine on the system it was built on, but when I > move that installation to another machine, I get messages such as: > > Warning: arch-dependent data dir > (/home/rejeep/emacs-install/libexec/emacs/24.3/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/) > does not exist. ... As you can see, you told configure your prefix was emacs-install but emacs considers the prefix to be the full path. This is consistent with most other software. The real prefix is /home/rejeep/emacs-install. You should really explain what you are trying to do because you are way off base with your approach. -- Dan Espen