xemacs and /usr/local/lib/xemacs

Pawel Worach pawel.worach at telia.com
Sat Feb 12 20:54:46 PST 2005


Kris Kennaway wrote:
> How hard would it be to patch xemacs to use /usr/local/share/xemacs
> instead of /usr/local/lib/xemacs (which violates hier(7))?
> 
> I was going to add the xemacs/site-lib and related directories to
> BSD.local.dist (the corresponding emacs directories are already there)
> so that xemacs ports don't have to worry about cleaning it up
> themselves (currently a number of ports fail to do so), but I don't
> want to do that since it violates hier(7).
> 
> Kris

It would be a matter of adding --libdir=$PREFIX/libexec and
--datadir=$PREFIX/share to CONFIGURE_ARGS. It builds ok but
'make install' breaks with:

File error: "Cannot open load file", "custom"
and
Load file subr: not found
Fatal error during load, aborting

I'll look into it.

-- 
Pawel


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