configure doesn't determine lispdir correctly in CVS

configure doesn't determine lispdir correctly in CVS

[David Maslen]

To build the latest cvs I update my cvs tree. I'm using gnu stow to
live happily with the debian packaging system.
I can then configure, build and install with the following commands;

configure --prefix=/isr/local/stow/pgnus-cvs
make EMACS=xemacs
make EMACS=xemacs lispdir=/usr/local/stow/pgnus-cvs/share/emacs/site-lisp/ install 


I don't understand why I must specify the lispdir on the make
commandline.

The top part of the Makefile generated looks like this;

        # Generated automatically from Makefile.in by configure.
        prefix = /usr/local/stow/pgnus-cvs/
        datadir = ${prefix}/share
        lispdir = 
        srcdir = .


        EMACS = no
        XEMACS = xemacs21


I have previously created 
/usr/local/stow/pgnus-cvs/share
/usr/local/stow/pgnus-cvs/share/emacs/site-lisp/
/usr/local/stow/pgnus-cvs/info

I would expect that configure would be able to determine a variable
for lispdir. 

Is this a bug that should be fixed? Or in configure just not doing as
much as I would like it to do?

Re: configure doesn't determine lispdir correctly in CVS

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 18, 1999, David Maslen <david.maslen@iname.com> wrote:

> I don't understand why I must specify the lispdir on the make
> commandline.

What if you set EMACS in the configure environment?

env EMACS=xemacs configure ...

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