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fimbaz |
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Re: Installing emacs binaries in non-standard location |
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Wed, 5 Nov 2014 13:00:41 -0800 (PST) |
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I am in your exact situation. This post was the last piece of the puzzle. You
rock!
On Friday, September 10, 2010 9:39:45 AM UTC-7, Derek wrote:
> Hopefully this will help someone else.
>
> I was given access to a bunch of AIX(6) boxes at work that didn't have
> emacs and didn't have a compiler so I couldn't build emacs from
> source.
>
> I was able to find some binary RPM's for AIX at
>
> http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/rpmgroups.html
>
> I used
> * emacs-21.3-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
> * emacs-el-21.3-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
> * emacs-leim-21.3-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
> * emacs-nox-21.3-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
>
> Of course I couldn't install the rpms because I am a non-root user, so
> I extracted the files from the rpms using rpm2cpio like so
>
> rpm2cpio myrpmfile.rpm | cpio -idmv
>
> I actually extracted them on a linux box because I didn't have
> rpm2cpio on the AIX box.
>
> Once they were extracted, I tarred everything up and moved it to a
> directory on the AIX box that I had permissions to. I then tried to
> run "emacs-nox."
>
> It wouldn't run because these were binary packages and the standard
> locations of the files were "built" into the binaries. It was looking
> for the standard files at
>
> /opt/freeware/share/emacs/21.3/.......
>
> I was getting the following errors
>
> Warning: arch-dependent data dir (/opt/freeware/lib/emacs/21.3/powerpc-
> ibm-aix5.1.0.0/) does not exis\
> t.
> Warning: Lisp directory `/opt/freeware/share/emacs/21.3/site-lisp'
> does not exist.
> Warning: Lisp directory `/opt/freeware/share/emacs/site-lisp' does not
> exist.
> Warning: Lisp directory `/opt/freeware/share/emacs/21.3/leim' does not
> exist.
> Warning: Lisp directory `/opt/freeware/share/emacs/21.3/lisp' does not
> exist.
>
>
> but of course I didn't have permission to install it there as a non-
> root user. I had installed it in
>
> /home/myuser/emacs/opt/freeware/....
>
> After some searching, I found that I could set some environment
> variables to override the default locations of the files. Here are
> the variables I set.
>
> EMACSLOADPATH=/home/myuser/emacs/opt/freeware/share/emacs/21.3/lisp
> EMACS_DIR=/home/myuser/emacs/opt/freeware/share/emacs/21.3
> EMACSDATA=/home/myuser/emacs/opt/freeware/share/emacs/21.3/etc
>
> and exported them
>
> export EMACSLOADPATH EMACS_DIR EMACSDATA
>
> I could then successfully start emacs-nox on the AIX boxes. Ahhhhhh
>
> Hope this helps someone else avoid a slow painful death by vi.
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