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bug#12123:
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#12123: |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:44:39 +0300 |
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: 12123@debbugs.gnu.org, yandros@MIT.EDU, eggert@cs.ucla.edu
> Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 22:00:49 -0400
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Btw, even if these conditions _are_ true, I still don't see how can we
> > find /usr/libexec/emacs/VERSION/CONFIG/, /usr/share/emacs/VERSION/lisp/
> > using the fact that Emacs was invoked from /usr/bin/. Which part of
> > the code knows about VERSION and CONFIG part and looks for them? All I
> > see is that we look for lib-src and etc, but that's only good to detect
> > that we are being run from the build directory, not from where we are
> > installed. What am I missing?
>
> Well yes, that's the point of this report. No-one has implemented a
> relocatable Emacs installation for general POSIX platforms. Solving
> those problems is part of it. A relocatable Emacs would not be installed
> as you describe above, it would (I imagine) be installed similar to the
> way the NS build is, under a single top-level directory.
The example above is still under a single top-level directory, called
'/usr' (a.k.a. ${prefix}). Relocating just means changing ${prefix}
after Emacs was built.
- bug#12123:, (continued)
- bug#12123:, Glenn Morris, 2013/04/05
- bug#12123:, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/05
- bug#12123:, Paul Eggert, 2013/04/06
- bug#12123:, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/06
- bug#12123:, Paul Eggert, 2013/04/06
- bug#12123:, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/06
- bug#12123:, Glenn Morris, 2013/04/07
- bug#12123:, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/07
- bug#12123:, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/07
- bug#12123:, Glenn Morris, 2013/04/07
- bug#12123:,
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- bug#12123:, Glenn Morris, 2013/04/07