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On 17 Dec 2004 18:37:54 +0100, Robert wrote:

> I'm having trouble installing 5.10.6 under xemacs 21.4. Two things
> seem to go wrong:

>  (1) make install fails, not being able to write to
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ (see output below)

Running 'make install' isn't recommended, as far as I remember.

Also, you seem to have forgotten to tell 'make' that your EMACS is
xemacs. See the file README in the distribution:

,----[ gnus-5.10.6/README ]
|
| You should definitely byte-compile the source files. To do that, you
| can simply say "./configure && make" in this directory.
| 
| 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.
| 
| If you are using XEmacs, you *must* say "./configure && make EMACS=xemacs".
|
`----

> % make install cd lisp && make EMACS="emacs"
[...]

!


  Best regards,

     Adam

-- 
 "Så har den første snøen falt                                Adam Sjøgren
  men det er ikkje derfor det er kaldt"                  asjo@koldfront.dk