Re: R: install and info

From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: R: install and info
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:41:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gcida4$nem$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 720541.32089.qm@web28313.mail.ukl.yahoo.com

Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it> writes:

> --- Mer 8/10/08, Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> ha scritto:
>> There might be an inconsistency in the install process.
>> Well, on my  debian system.
>> 
>> In the Makefile we have
>> 
>> ,----
>> | # Where local software is found
>> | prefix=/usr/local
>> | 
>> | # Where local lisp files go.
>> | lispdir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp
>> | 
>> | # Where info files go.
>> | infodir = $(prefix)/info
>> `----
>> 
>> Now I dont pretend to even begin to understand how the info
>> system works  but a "sudo make install-info" does not work
>> because (a) it puts the
>> file into /usr/local/info and my system appears to expect
>> it in
>> /usr/local/share/info. 
>
> Richard, 
> the section of the Makefile you are referring to begins with:
> ##----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ##  YOU MUST EDIT THE FOLLOWING LINES 
> ##----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> so, please, modify your paths accordingly, 

I guess I was requesting (although didnt make it clear) some auto way of
detecting the target OS. Certainly if there is a site elisp I would
expect there to be a site info too - so there is still possibly an
inconsistency in the defaults.

> or download a quite recent version of org 
> from the Debian repository (for both testing, 6.05, and sid 6.06)

Unfortunately they are broken for my setup so I use the recent versions
which are no 6.09 area.

>
> cheers,
>
> Giovanni
>
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