12:06 a.m.
Hi,
It would be nice if the 21.5 could easily be configured not to install
itself as plain "xemacs". Is there some way I'm missing to do that
already (or am I the only one keeping both the stable and the working
versions in the same prefix-location and getting annoyed about them
replacing xemacs all the time?)
Yours
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%% Mats
12:36 a.m.
* Mats Lidell <matsl(a)xemacs.org> writes:
It would be nice if the 21.5 could easily be configured not to
install itself as plain "xemacs". Is there some way I'm missing
to do that already (or am I the only one keeping both the stable
and the working versions in the same prefix-location and getting
annoyed about them replacing xemacs all the time?)
Just run em in place, ie, _don't_ `make install'. And in your smoketest
script, you'd do something like...
make XEMACS=/path/to/21.5/src/xemacs
...
make XEMACS=/path/to/21.4/src/xemacs
...
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7:29 a.m.
Steve Youngs writes:
Just run em in place, ie, _don't_ `make install'.
That is an option but I kind of like to do an install since I then get a version to
rollback to when a build fails. Running in place is difficult after a "make
clean" :-)
And in your smoketest script, you'd do something like...
Yes. This is not a big problem for the smoketest though. I need to have control of what
XEmacs version is used for each smoketest build there. It is more of a problem with my
personal environment running both 21.4 and 21.5.
Yours
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%% Mats
9:04 a.m.
>>>> "Mats" == Mats Lidell
<matsl(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Mats> It would be nice if the 21.5 could easily be configured not
Mats> to install itself as plain "xemacs". Is there some way I'm
Mats> missing to do that already (or am I the only one keeping
Mats> both the stable and the working versions in the same
Mats> prefix-location and getting annoyed about them replacing
Mats> xemacs all the time?)
XEmacs installs itself as xemacs-$VERSION, then makes a symlink xemacs
-> xemacs-$VERSION.
Find the place in src/Makefile.in.in that makes that symlink, change
it to whatever you want (or just disable it) and you're golden, I think.
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11:19 p.m.
>>>> Stephen wrote:
Stephen> Find the place in src/Makefile.in.in that makes that symlink,
Stephen> change it to whatever you want (or just disable it) and
Stephen> you're golden, I think.
Something like this ;-) (Patch follows.)
Index: Makefile.in.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/Makefile.in.in,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -r1.24 Makefile.in.in
--- Makefile.in.in 2005/01/31 20:01:50 1.24
+++ Makefile.in.in 2005/03/17 23:06:39
＠＠ -93,6 +93,9 ＠＠
## by configure.
PROGNAME=＠PROGNAME＠
+## This is the name of the installed binary.
+PROGLINKNAME=＠PROGLINKNAME＠
+
## ==================== Where To Install Things ====================
## The default location for installation. Everything is placed in
＠＠ -392,17 +395,17 ＠＠
${INSTALL_DATA} src/${PROGNAME}.dmp ${bindir}/${PROGNAME}-${version}-`src/${PROGNAME}
-sd`.dmp
#endif
#ifdef WIN32_NATIVE
- ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} src/${PROGNAME} ${bindir}/${PROGNAME}
- -chmod 0755 ${bindir}/${PROGNAME}
+ ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} src/${PROGNAME} ${bindir}/${PROGLINKNAME}
+ -chmod 0755 ${bindir}/${PROGLINKNAME}
#else
# ifdef CYGWIN
${INSTALL_PROGRAM} src/${PROGNAME} ${bindir}/${PROGNAME}-${version}.exe
-chmod 0755 ${bindir}/${PROGNAME}-${version}.exe
- cd ${bindir} && $(RM) ./${PROGNAME} && ${LN_S}
${PROGNAME}-${version}.exe ./${PROGNAME}
+ cd ${bindir} && $(RM) ./${PROGLINKNAME} && ${LN_S}
${PROGNAME}-${version}.exe ./${PROGLINKNAME}
# else
${INSTALL_PROGRAM} src/${PROGNAME} ${bindir}/${PROGNAME}-${version}
-chmod 0755 ${bindir}/${PROGNAME}-${version}
- cd ${bindir} && $(RM) ./${PROGNAME} && ${LN_S} ${PROGNAME}-${version}
./${PROGNAME}
+ cd ${bindir} && $(RM) ./${PROGLINKNAME} && ${LN_S}
${PROGNAME}-${version} ./${PROGLINKNAME}
# endif /* CYGWIN */
#endif /* WIN32_NATIVE */
if test "${prefix}" != "${exec_prefix}"; then \
Index: configure.ac
===================================================================
RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/configure.ac,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 configure.ac
--- configure.ac 2005/03/15 12:37:14 1.4
+++ configure.ac 2005/03/17 23:06:41
＠＠ -900,6 +900,10 ＠＠
used if Motif can be found, else Athena is used.]),
[], [],[yes,no,lucid,motif,athena,gtk,msw])
+AC_ARG_WITH([program_linkname],
+ AC_HELP_STRING([--with-program-linkname],[The name for the installed program.]),
+ [], [])
+
dnl -------------------------------------------------------------------------
dnl Final command line argument checks.
＠＠ -1059,6 +1063,12 ＠＠
PROGNAME=xemacs
fi
+if test "$with_program_linkname" == ""; then
+ PROGLINKNAME=$PROGNAME
+else
+ PROGLINKNAME=$with_program_linkname
+fi
+
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(EMACS_PROGNAME, "$PROGNAME")
dnl ----------------------------------
＠＠ -5217,6 +5227,7 ＠＠
dnl configuration here uncanonicalized to avoid exceeding size limits.
AC_SUBST(PROGNAME)
+AC_SUBST(PROGLINKNAME)
AC_SUBST(version)
AC_SUBST(inststaticdir)
AC_SUBST(instvardir)
Yours
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%% Mats
3:03 a.m.
>>>> "Mats" == Mats Lidell
<matsl(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>> Stephen wrote:
Stephen> Find the place in src/Makefile.in.in that makes that
Stephen> symlink, change it to whatever you want (or just disable
Stephen> it) and you're golden, I think.
Mats> Something like this ;-) (Patch follows.)
This will work, but it doesn't look very familiar. There's a
"standard way" (ie, UI) to do this in configure (program prefixes and
suffixes), I'm pretty sure. If you want this in the mainline,
somebody (and it won't be me for several weeks, at least) is going to
have to look up the standard way to do it.
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11:01 a.m.
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
There's a "standard way" (ie, UI) to do this in
configure (program prefixes and
suffixes), I'm pretty sure. If you want this in the mainline,
somebody (and it won't be me for several weeks, at least) is going to
have to look up the standard way to do it.
No problem. I have been missing this for years. I can wait. :-)
Yours
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