[BUG]: DESTDIR support not working correctly in xemacs 21.5.27

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Jan 15 01:28:19 EST 2007


Hans de Graaff writes:

 > At least from the Gentoo perspective the one thing that really should
 > change is the location of the elisp files. These should be moved to
 > /usr/share instead of being in /usr/lib. When I investigated this earlier
 > it seemed that most of the other distributions also use this layout for
 > XEmacs.

That's probably false, as this elisp has an intimate relationship with
a particular binary (it's dumped into it).  Note that (at least on my
Gentoo system) Python library code is in /usr/share/python$VERSION.
The same logic applies to XEmacs.

The packaged Lisp can easily go into /usr/share.



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