Re: [Jens Elkner <elkner@ue.iff.fhg.de>] RFE: Install doc
Valdis Kl=?iso8859-4?Q?=BA?=tnieks
Wednesday, 29 September
1999
Wed, 29 Sep
'99
2:54 p.m.
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:29:26 +0200, Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> said:
Yep. However part of the problem is that "make install" is
not
creating the approriate directories as a template. In that situation
the package installation utilities have horendous failure modes. If
Yes. This *does* need to be fixed. Maybe we need to hack up 'make install'
such that it won't build an XEmacs that will even try to start up if
minimum sanity checks aren't fulfilled.
I guess I sure wouldn't veto a patch that unpackaged a copy of
EFS
and/or xemacs-base at "make install" provided they can be upgraded as
normal packages. (The better solution would be to have XEmacs talk
http to bootstrap).
One word. Firewalls.
Having it auto-bootstrap via http *would* be a nice feature, but some sites
*will* have to keep working in the "FTP and sneakernet 4 tarballs and build
by hand" scheme.
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