From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Mac OS X load path Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:47:28 +0900 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203389284 728 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2008 02:48:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:48:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 19 03:48:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JRIWx-0005Hh-Ac for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:48:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRIWS-0005r9-PN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:47:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRIWA-0005qm-Ms for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:47:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRIW9-0005qA-Fk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:47:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRIW9-0005q6-8p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:47:37 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRIW8-00062K-PI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:47:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JRIW6-0006JR-8i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:47:34 +0000 Original-Received: from gw.community-engine.co.jp ([210.255.51.230]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:47:34 +0000 Original-Received: from william.xwl by gw.community-engine.co.jp with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:47:34 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: gw.community-engine.co.jp User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MI8SfrBw66kwhA1QLdHf/qCJqZ4= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51668 Archived-At: Dmitrijs Ledkovs writes: > So I have successfully compiled carbon emacs and installed it > (overriding system emacs, yeah save space, no modified OS, oh well.) > > Everything is ok. Until I got to the stage of installing additional > packages (modes) and trying to make them work. I think overriding system stuffs is always a bad idea, since it may make things messy. Thus, it is a good idea to install it them just under $HOME instead, namely, pass `--prefix=$HOME' when `configure'. -- William