From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Modified load-path proposal Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:17:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87ek6njah0.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <878xwx5ld2.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87u0fl3wam.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87oe5s51l4.fsf@ivanova.rotty.yi.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129375073 17775 80.91.229.2 (15 Oct 2005 11:17:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:17:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 15 13:17:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQk2b-0004ax-8A for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:17:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQk2a-0004c0-K7 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:17:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EQk2U-0004a9-GW for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EQk2S-0004YR-Nb for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQk2S-0004YF-FC for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:17:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.84.72.33] (helo=mail3.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EQk2S-0002He-D2 for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:17:20 -0400 Original-Received: from laruns (host81-130-31-36.in-addr.btopenworld.com [81.130.31.36]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE20D409FBF; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:17:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from laruns (laruns [127.0.0.1]) by laruns (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F5D6F71C; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:17:16 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Andreas Rottmann In-Reply-To: <87oe5s51l4.fsf@ivanova.rotty.yi.org> (Andreas Rottmann's message of "Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:28:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:4846 Archived-At: Andreas Rottmann writes: > I strongly support making this the default/standard way, too. I'd be > highly annoyed (well, that's an understatement ;)) if a "./configure > && make && sudo make install" of some package would put files under > /usr just because guile happens to be installed there. Fundamentally, however, it's up to the package author, and autoconf provides no way to police this. Also note that for Elisp files the recommended method is to use AM_PATH_LISPDIR, which will install Elisp files to wherever your Emacs is installed, not to $prefix. Does that annoy you also? The mechanism I'm proposing is a bit more flexible than that, but the basic idea in both cases is that the core distribution (either Emacs or Guile) has a view on where it wants add-on packages to be installed (and hence which may be different from the add-on package's $prefix). Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user