Re: Cocoa Emacs

[Adrian Robert]

On Aug 22, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Nick Roberts wrote:

> > A way to get the best of both worlds would be to add an ns-appdir
> > configure option which defaults to ./nextstep but could be set to,
> > e.g., /Applications.  Such an option was there before, but I took it
> > out during the process of simplifying the build and getting rid of  
> > the
> > extra compile script we used to have.  Perhaps now would be a good
> > time to add it back in though.
>
> Doesn't
>
> configure --exec-prefix=/Applications
>
> do this?

Does it?  Exec-prefix has a different meaning (where do bare binaries  
go, not an application package), which is why the Carbon port and I  
propose the NS one as well use a distinct "appdir" config option.