Re: Buggy invocation of emacs during "make"

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

On Friday 22 October 2004 11:29 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> 
> That would seem to be your failure: /usr/local/bin is (supposedly) just as 
> unwritable to ordinary users as /usr/local/share/emacs/... is.
> 
> > The long and short of it is that the Makefile created
> > in the .../docs 
> 
> It's actually "lisp", not "docs"...

right. sorry.
 
> > directory tries to execute this command:
> >    /bin/sh ./../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
> > during a normal "make".  It shouldn't do that.
> 
> It should only do that in the 'make install' rather than plain 'make',
> right.  But the above *is* the correct location, for a default
> configure-driven install (prefix defaulting to /usr/local, not /usr).
> And for an install where emacs is found to be present, this is supposed 
> to be done.

How do you figure?
Configure does test for emacs, and it finds emacs in /usr/bin/emacs.
  configure:4000: checking for emacs
  configure:4016: found /usr/bin/emacs
  configure:4026: result: emacs
So it makes little sense to then use /usr/local/...  instead.

Anyway that is a secondary point.  The major point is that it should
not be trying to write into either /usr/share or /usr/local/share during
a normal "make".  Any ideas how to change this?

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