Re: something within 'make install'

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 10:56 am, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
> Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > When I do "make install", then gnuplot is executing also this:
> >=20
> > Creating texinfo
> > Loading /usr/lib/emacs/21.3/i586-suse-linux/fns-21.3.1.el (source)...
> [...]
> > Isn't this something which should have been done during normal "make"?
>=20
> Of course.  And it always was.  But then someone helpfully turned that=20
> off, for no better excuse that he didn't have a running emacs installed.

Oh, I had a much better reason than that.

The current ./configure + make for the lisp files is, and has been
for a very long time, broken.  I have reported this problem
about 3 times, and other people have complained on the list as well.
Better to turn it off by default than to struggle with it every time.
=20
Having or not having a version of emacs installed is only part of
the problem.  The bigger part is that the Makefile tries to write
into various system directories to which it doesn't have access.
Saying "it works on my machine" doesn't help any.  It doesn't work
on mine, and it doesn't work for those others who complained.

If someone can fix ./configure or automake or whatever so that
building the lisp files works properly, then fine.  Otherwise it
had better remain disabled by default.

But I must have missed taking it out of "make install" in the case=20
of --disable-lisp-files.  Sorry :-)

=2D-=20
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA