Path changes in 21.5.29

Ron Isaacson Ron.Isaacson at morganstanley.com
Fri Jul 31 14:59:35 EDT 2009


<sperber at deinprogramm.de> wrote:
> 
> Ron Isaacson <Ron.Isaacson at morganstanley.com> writes:
> 
> > All grumbling aside, I'm still struggling with this... I don't think
> > the Makefile was properly updated to reflect the change from lib to
> > share.
> 
> That's right - these symlinks are downright silly.  The real reason is
> that the path-searching has bugs in situations where prefix !=
> exec-prefix.  I've just pushed a bunch of changes that, in conjunction,
> fix the problem.

Great, thanks. I haven't tried another build yet, but with startup.el
looking in emacs-data-roots instead of emacs-roots, it should find
these installed in the PREFIX location instead of EXEC_PREFIX, and the
symlinks should indeed be unnecessary.

I'll let you know when 21.5.30 comes out. :-)

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Ron Isaacson
Morgan Stanley
ron.isaacson at morganstanley.com / (212) 762-1051




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