xemacs and /usr/local/lib/xemacs

Gary Jennejohn garyj at jennejohn.org
Sun Feb 13 04:04:08 PST 2005


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.).

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Gary Jennejohn / garyj[at]jennejohn.org gj[at]freebsd.org garyj[at]denx.de



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