From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36245 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Raja R Harinath Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Makefile bug. Date: 16 May 2001 13:55:38 -0500 Sender: harinath@cs.umn.edu Message-ID: References: <4ag0e5rdsu.fsf@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171864 7565 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:44:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:44:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 3900 invoked by alias); 16 May 2001 18:55:40 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3895 invoked from network); 16 May 2001 18:55:40 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.cs.umn.edu (128.101.35.200) by gnus.org with SMTP; 16 May 2001 18:55:40 -0000 Original-Received: from han.cs.umn.edu (IDENT:root@han.cs.umn.edu [128.101.35.134]) by mail.cs.umn.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4GItc004574; Wed, 16 May 2001 13:55:38 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from harinath@localhost) by han.cs.umn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA08844; Wed, 16 May 2001 13:55:38 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: han.cs.umn.edu: harinath set sender to harinath@cs.umn.edu using -f Original-To: Gaute B Strokkenes In-Reply-To: <4ag0e5rdsu.fsf@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> (Gaute B Strokkenes's message of "16 May 2001 07:46:57 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.103 Original-Lines: 23 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36245 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36245 Hi, Gaute B Strokkenes writes: > I'm not sure if this is the right place to report this, but when I did > a make install with CVS gnus as of a few minutes ago, make tried to > create a directory called /emacs and died. If my analysis is correct > this is due to a missing datadir = @datadir@ in gnus/etc/Makefile.in > > > Additionally, the install target could not deal with a gnus configured > like this: > > $ ./configure --prefix=~/elisp/gnus If you really want to use ~ expansion this way, try ./configure --prefix ~/elisp/gnus - Hari -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu "When all else fails, read the instructions." -- Cahn's Axiom "Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing." -- Roy L Ash