[debbugs-tracker] bug#14576: closed ("make install" has trouble with non-standard locallisppath directories)

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> "make install" has trouble with non-standard locallisppath directories
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> Sat, 8 Jun 2013 16:15:33 +0200
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> Package: emacs
> Version: 24.3.50
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> On Windows, using the MSYS build machinery.
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> If you need to add a non-default lisp directory to the path, by
> following nt/INSTALL.MSYS recommendation of doing, for example
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>   ./nt/msysconfig.sh
> --enable-locallisppath='%emacs_dir%/../site-lisp;%emacs_dir%/share/emacs/24.3.50/site-lisp;%emacs_dir%/share/emacs/site-lisp'
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> then "make install" will try to create these directories *in the build
> tree* (not the installation dir), and do a poor job at it. In the
> above case, after make install the build tree will contain these
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>  %emacs_dir%
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> site-lisp;%emacs_dir%/share/emacs/24.3.50/site-lisp;%emacs_dir%/share/emacs/site-lisp
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> "%emacs_dir%" is literal, an unexpanded environment variable.
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> Makefile.in contains this old note:
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>   ## I'm not sure creating locallisppath here serves any useful purpose.
>   ## If it has the default value, then the later write_subdir commands
>   ## will ensure all these components exist.
>   ## This will only do something if locallisppath has a non-standard value.
>   ## Is it really Emacs's job to create those directories?
>   ## Should we also be ensuring they contain subdirs.el files?
>   ## It would be easy to do, just use write_subdir.
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> and indeed, I would argue that is not Emacs' job to create them. If
> the user is knowledgeable enough to have to use
> --enable-locallisppath, s/he'll also know enough to make sure the
> directories exist and contain subdirs.el as required.
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> Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:02:28 +0200
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> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > I removed from nt/INSTALL.MSYS the example that made it sound as if
> > %emacs_dir% is supported.
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> Now that locallisppath does not create directories, I'd suggest
> reverting revno:112894 and re-adding the comment about using
> %emacs_dir%. It is useful advice.
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> In fact, I'd go so far as to suggest adding a note about @VER@ (yes,
> full of caveats and warnings and whatnot about it being unsupported
> and an implementation detail, but still...)
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>    J
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