Re: How to install XEmacs Beta
Charles, et al,
So it seems that I can install 21.2.x with the same --prefix of $HOME since
the created subdirectories are version-specific. As long as I don't rely on
xemacs symlink, I'd be ok.
But as far as packages go, I can only have one copy. Should I be using the
beta packages if I want to test the beta or go with the standard packages?
If I choose not to install and instead run it out of the soure tree, as
Martin suggested, could I then associate the beta packages somehow with the
beta xemacs?
Thanks for the help thus far!
...Jake
>>>> "CGW" == Charles G Waldman
<cgw(a)fnal.gov> writes:
CGW> Jake Colman writes:
>
> (this is a repeat of a so-far unaswered question)
>
> How do I locally install the XEmacs beta (21.2.x) if I've also locally
> installed 21.1.x? In other words, I built 21.1.x with --prefix=$HOME
> and did an actual 'make install'. I want to play with the beta series
> but I want everything to coexist so that 21.1.x does not get trashed.
> Can this be done? Also, hw do I handle the packages?
CGW> Since "make install" puts everything in
CGW> <prefix>/lib/xemacs-<version> you should be able to install a
21.1
CGW> and 21.2 without conflict. In <prefix>/bin/ you will have
CGW> xemacs-21.1.x and xemacs-21.2.x. Just watch out for the "xemacs"
CGW> symlink...
CGW> The packages and other "shared" stuff goes in
<prefix>/lib/xemacs,
CGW> so you only need to have one set of packages installed.
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