How to install XEmacs Beta
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?
Since "make install" puts everything in
<prefix>/lib/xemacs-<version>
you should be able to install a 21.1 and 21.2 without conflict. In
<prefix>/bin/ you will have xemacs-21.1.x and xemacs-21.2.x. Just
watch out for the "xemacs" symlink...
The packages and other "shared" stuff goes in <prefix>/lib/xemacs, so
you only need to have one set of packages installed.