Re: Gnus installation

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Mon, Oct 03 2005, Adam Sjøgren wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 08:41:59 +0900, Katsumi wrote:
>> Thanks.  But I was a bit surprised that there weren't much
>> responses to this.  

No objection signals agreement, I think. ;-)

>> 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?

I usually run this for the trunk build...

  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
    --with-lispdir=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/No_Gnus
  make && make install

(with .nosearch in No_Gnus; i.e. the user has to specify that he wants
bleeding edge explicitely.)

... and this for the v5-10 branch:

  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
    --with-lispdir=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnus-5-10
  make && make install

`make && make install' always installed the *.el files, so I didn't
quite understand the problem you're referring to.  IMO, the default
should be to install the *.el files.

> ,----
> | Do not say "make install".  I repeat, do *NOT* say "make install".  If
> | you say "make install" and then complain about things not working,
> | I'll be very annoyed.  If you say "make install" and things happen to
> | work, that's all fine and dandy for you, but it's quite likely that it
> | won't.
> `----

There are different opinions about this, see the thread around
<news:m33cjx7rbr.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (fetched this MID from another
thread; I hope it's correct).

Bye, Reiner.
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