xemacs and /usr/local/lib/xemacs

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Feb 13 12:48:45 PST 2005


On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 01:04:04PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> 
> Kris Kennaway writes:
> > How hard would it be to patch xemacs to use /usr/local/share/xemacs
> > instead of /usr/local/lib/xemacs (which violates hier(7))?
> > 
> 
> It can be done but it's a PITA. The port will have to use a whole
> slew of make command line variales as described in INSTALLING.
> 
> If xemacs is changed then xemacs-packages should also be changed
> since it also installs into /usr/local/lib. Not to forget all the
> language-specific ports (mule, etc.).

OK, I guess the alternative is to make all those ports clean up their
non-hier(7) directories completely instead of putting it in the mtree
file :(

Kris

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