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Re: Mac OS X GNU Emacs Installer (make-package)
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Andrew Choi |
Subject: |
Re: Mac OS X GNU Emacs Installer (make-package) |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Dec 2002 12:45:39 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Steven Tamm <address@hidden> writes:
> >Actually the idea (which hasn't been implemented) was to have `make
> >install' install only one executable on the entire system: the one in
> >the Emacs.app application bundle. Then /usr/local/bin/emacs would be
> >the shell script:
> >
> >#!/bin/sh
> >/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs "$@"
>
> Actually, I think this is a good idea, but in the reverse. I would
> have the single copy of the executable in /usr/local/bin/emacs and
> have the Emacs executable be a link (either sym or hard). The main
> reason is that it is likely to have the application move, but
> extremely unlikely that /usr/local/bin/emacs would move.
This is also fine with me.
IIRC, having Emacs (in the application bundle) as a symlink didn't work
in an earlier version of OS X (10.0 I think). Strangely it worked in
Public Beta. In any case I don't think there are users of either
version of OS X any more.
- Re: Mac OS X GNU Emacs Installer (make-package), Richard Stallman, 2002/12/02
- Re: Mac OS X GNU Emacs Installer (make-package), Richard Stallman, 2002/12/02
- Re: Mac OS X GNU Emacs Installer (make-package), Richard Stallman, 2002/12/02
- Re: Mac OS X GNU Emacs Installer (make-package), Stefan Monnier, 2002/12/02
- Re: Mac OS X GNU Emacs Installer (make-package), Andrew Choi, 2002/12/02
- Re: Mac OS X GNU Emacs Installer (make-package), Steven Tamm, 2002/12/02
- Re: Mac OS X GNU Emacs Installer (make-package),
Andrew Choi <=