Re: Gnus installation

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> In <ilu3bnlh5v4.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Ok.  You have my vote.

Thanks.  But I was a bit surprised that there weren't much
responses to this.  Do most people install Gnus Lisp files to
the site-lisp/ directory, not a subdirectory, site-lisp/gnus/
for instance?  Or, do most people always specify the
--with-lispdir configure option?  If there's no response after
this, I will stop this argument.

BTW, I noticed changing the default Lisp directory in which Gnus
is installed might cause Lisp shadows, and what is worse, Emacs
prefers site-lisp/ rather than site-lisp/gnus/.  So, I will have
to make the installer remove those shadows (or issue a warning)
when I change the default lispdir.

>>>> In addition to this,
>>>> there's another problem that ``./configure; make install'' will
>>>> never install .el files.  WDYT?
>>
>> It won't be a matter, if people always use ``make; make install''.
>> However, those who fully trust Gnus might do that, and they will
>> not be able to get meaningful backtrace when they are betrayed.

> And further, *.el contain online documentation, so they really should
> be installed IMHO.

I did it in both the trunk and the v5-10 branch.