xemacs and /usr/local/lib/xemacs

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Feb 12 21:54:44 PST 2005


On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:54:42AM +0100, Pawel Worach wrote:
> 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.

Thanks!  And thanks for taking on the xemacs maintainership, these
ports have been neglected for too long.

Kris
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