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Re: Installing 5.10.6: permission for gnus-load.el
From: |
Adam Sjøgren |
Subject: |
Re: Installing 5.10.6: permission for gnus-load.el |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:55:18 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, linux) |
On 17 Dec 2004 18:37:54 +0100, Robert wrote:
> I'm having trouble installing 5.10.6 under xemacs 21.4. Two things
> seem to go wrong:
> (1) make install fails, not being able to write to
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ (see output below)
Running 'make install' isn't recommended, as far as I remember.
Also, you seem to have forgotten to tell 'make' that your EMACS is
xemacs. See the file README in the distribution:
,----[ gnus-5.10.6/README ]
|
| You should definitely byte-compile the source files. To do that, you
| can simply say "./configure && make" in this directory.
|
| Do not say "make install". I repeat, do *NOT* say "make install". If
| you say "make install" and then complain about things not working,
| I'll be very annoyed. If you say "make install" and things happen to
| work, that's all fine and dandy for you, but it's quite likely that it
| won't.
|
| If you are using XEmacs, you *must* say "./configure && make EMACS=xemacs".
|
`----
> % make install cd lisp && make EMACS="emacs"
[...]
!
Best regards,
Adam
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