From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: Thomas Jost <schnouki@schnouki.net>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org, "Amadeusz Żołnowski" <aidecoe@aidecoe.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Separate Emacs miscellaneous files directory from Emacs code directory.
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:15:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yf662jdwkq4.fsf@taco2.nixu.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vcrdh7df.fsf@thor.loria.fr> (Thomas Jost's message of "Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:12:44 +0200")
On Tue 25 Oct 2011 10:12, Thomas Jost <schnouki@schnouki.net> writes:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:13:11 -0300, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:34:58 +0200, Amadeusz Żołnowski <aidecoe@aidecoe.name> wrote:
>> > --emacsetcdir was added, but it's set default to the same value as
>> > --emacslispdir for backward compatibility.
>> > ---
>>
>> At a quick search, I couldn't find any reference to --emacsetcdir
>> outside Gentoo. I'd like to hear what other people think about this one.
>
> I had never heard of that, but apparently there's a
> /usr/share/emacs/24.0.90/etc on my system which contains images, READMEs
> and other misc files. It's also described in the "data-directory"
> variable in Emacs:
>
> data-directory is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> Its value is "/usr/share/emacs/24.0.90/etc/"
>
> Documentation:
> Directory of machine-independent files that come with GNU Emacs.
> These are files intended for Emacs to use while it runs.
>
> So I guess it can't hurt to add this.
except...
emacslispdir is supposed to be PREFIX/share/emacs/site-lisp
In case emacsetcdir is not set to anything else this is to be
the same.
But what is the value for emacsetcdir used in Gentoo ?
------------------------------------------------------
The above "/usr/share/emacs/24.0.90/etc/" is analogous to
PREFIX/share/emacs/<version>/etc;
In PREFIX/share/emacs/<version> there is also (23.a in question):
drwxr-xr-x. 11 root root 4096 May 31 13:49 etc/
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 May 31 13:49 leim/
drwxr-xr-x. 23 root root 12288 May 31 13:49 lisp/
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May 31 13:49 site-lisp/
(this site-lisp is different than the emacslispdir in question, so
the 'etc' here doesn't match emacsetcdir... but hey! maybe the answer
to the above question is: PREFIX/share/emacs/etc ? )
Anyway, I'm for inclusion of this patch, provided that there is good
explanation of it -- It doesn't seem to break things.
>
> However there is something annoying in the commit:
>
> +# The directory to which emacs lisp files should be installed
> +emacsetcdir=${EMACSETCDIR}
>
> $EMACSETCDIR is not for emacs lisp files (that's what $EMACSLISPDIR is
> for), so this line needs be fixed.
indeed.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Thomas/Schnouki
Tomi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-25 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-24 18:34 [PATCH] Separate Emacs miscellaneous files directory from Emacs code directory Amadeusz Żołnowski
2011-10-25 1:13 ` David Bremner
2011-10-25 7:12 ` Thomas Jost
2011-10-25 8:07 ` [PATCH] Separate Emacs misc. files dir. from Emacs code dir Amadeusz Żołnowski
2011-10-28 17:10 ` David Bremner
2011-10-25 8:11 ` [PATCH] Separate Emacs miscellaneous files directory from Emacs code directory Amadeusz Żołnowski
2011-10-25 8:17 ` Tomi Ollila
2011-10-25 8:31 ` Amadeusz Żołnowski
2011-10-25 8:50 ` Tomi Ollila
2011-10-25 8:15 ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
2011-10-25 8:40 ` Amadeusz Żołnowski
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