INSTALL from sources

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Mats.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 07:13:26AM +0200, Mats Lidell wrote:
> >>>>> Alan Mackenzie <acm at muc.de> writes:

> > I think I'm sure I've made no typing mistakes.  Something wierd is
> > going on.  If this configuration element worked, what would I be
> > seeing?

> Could it be that you are pointing to the location of the package
> sources and not to the place of the installed packages? XEmacs needs to
> find the installed packages in order to populate the load path. 

Er, yes, that's precisely what I'm doing.  This should work, surely?  At
the moment, there are only .el files in these directories.  Will this
prevent XEmacs from recognising the directories as `load-path'
components?

What does "install" mean?  It means, primarily, that files get copied to
/usr/local/share/....  So why would /usr/local/share/.... work, but my
source directory not?  I'll try compiling all the packages and see if
that makes a difference.

> Yours
> -- 
> %% Mats

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).