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Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory


From: Arthur Miller
Subject: Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:31:55 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com> writes:

> 0. git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git $HOME/emacs
> 1. git checkout -b dev
> 2. ./autogen.sh ; ./configure ; make -j4
> 3. alias emacs=$HOME/emacs/src/emacs
> 4. Live out your dreams
>
> Apart from betraying a fundamental misunderstanding about UNIX's reification
> of installed binaries, your dream scenario couldn't realize anyway because
> apparently you lack the system privileges to even `make install` (which is a
> crucial but missing step in your previous message).
>
> YK> As it is, I merely project it onto people who do.
>
> This, I think, is one of the unspoken benefits of keeping emacs development
> via mailing list patches and debbugs as arcane and awkward as possible.

One can configure with PREFIX being somewhere in the home dir, or
elsewhere with write priviledges, and on our home/personal computers it
is not of a problem anyway, but still; why doing it and spending time
compressing/decompressing when it works just fine from src dir.



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