Re: [PATCH] configure: Use $prefix for emacs, even when pkg-config is available.

[Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>]

On Sat, Nov 28 2015, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:

> Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> writes:
>
>> Assumming that you have pkg-config installed, emacs installed, and the
>> command 'pkg-config emacs --variable sitepkglispdir' returns a
>> directory that only root can write to, then the make install above
>> should fail.
>
> I agree that the current behaviour is probably wrong. I'm not sure if we
> need more control here as Tomi suggests. My biggest concern is that
> emacs.pc seems to be rather specific to fedora / redhat packaging, which
> makes it hard for me to evaluate both the current handling and this
> patch. Do any any Fedora users have opinions on just dropping the
> handling of "pkg-config emacs"? Or am I missing other places that
> pkg-config file is available?

Now that I looked this a bit more I tend to agree with David:

default PREFIX is /usr/local

and $ pkg-config emacs --variable sitepkglispdir

outputs

/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp

(in default case we should mangle /local/ there in between ... :/ ).

package managers can add 

./configure ---emacslispdir=`pkg-config emacs --variable sitepkglispdir`

in their build scripts.

>
> d

Tomi