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To: Ricardo Marek <ricky@ornet.co.il>
Cc: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>,
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Subject: Re: package-path questions
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From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Date: 26 Aug 1997 08:59:45 -0700
In-Reply-To: Ricardo Marek's message of "Tue, 26 Aug 1997 18:46:07 +0300 (IDT)"
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Ricardo Marek <ricky@ornet.co.il> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> >>>>> Colin Rafferty writes:
> 
>  :: Q3/ footnotes is given as a package, but it doesn't untar like gnus or auctex
>  :: in etc lisp and info dirs. How do we make it install correctly ?
> 
>  Colin: You do `make xemacs-package' in the footnote direcory, and then redump
>  Colin: xemacs.
> 
> What if the packages aren't located in /usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages?
> 
> The Makefile should be addapted to the correct location of the packages.
> 
> In the makefile you have:
> 
>    PACKAGEDIR = /usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages

  AUTOCONF AUTOCONF AUTOCONF.

  Well, actually, it would be better if we adopted something like Perl's
Makefile.PL strategy.  Then you would just do:

xemacs -batch -l Makefile.el -eval '(make-makefile)'
make install

  Makefile.el would set up a hash table of 'normal' targets that most
people would want to make, and then make-makefile would substitute
package-dir and friends at appropriate places.

-Bill P.

