Re: Erratum: App Note: Installing Tramp on Fedora (and probably Red Hat)

[Michael Albinus]

Charles Curley <address@hidden> writes:

> and that worked correctly. So did your proposed line,
>
> ./configure --with-contrib --prefix=/usr/share
>
> Can you automate this by having .configure detect the presence of
> /etc/fedora-release or /etc/redhat-release? redhat-release is present
> on non-Fedora installations, but may go away in future releases of
> Fedora.

The current default is "/usr/local". This seems to be better suited,
because many users do apply Tramp on your local builds of
(X)Emacs.

"/usr/share" is the place a Linux distribution puts (X)Emacs
packages. I believe it is less common that somebody has a
distribution-provided (X)Emacs, and an own-compiled Tramp; but I might
be wrong.

I've adapted the following in the Tramp installation chapter (for the
Emacs case):

     By default, `make install' will install TRAMP's files in
  `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' and `/usr/local/info'.  You can
  specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving
  `configure' the option `--prefix=PATH'.  On Linux systems, it has been
  reported usefull to apply

       ./configure --prefix=/usr/share

Is that sufficient?

Best regards, Michael.