Re: MacOSX installation suggestions.

[Jan D.]

> The point is taken.  I will point out that if installing into /usr (or 
> possibly some other directory), one might need to use sudo.  I'll also 
> document the suggestion about not using /usr.

Thanks.

> > I do think make install should install Emacs.app also.  Now one has to
> > manually copy it after make install.  It doesn't seem right that make
> > install doesn't install everything.
>
> Makes sense.  I just put in some changes to get the Application to build 
> in a separate directory, so having it install into /Application would be 
> nice (and pretty much done); it would make the make-package script a 
> little easier.

I would like to suggest a separate configure option, that defaults to
/Application (--appdir?).  If doing a build and install as a regular
user, one probably don't wan't it in /Application.


> What do people think about placing this mac-specfic stuff in a new 
> Makefile in the mac/ directory v placing it in the src/ directory?  I was 
> just going to place it in the src directory because it's not large enough 
> to justify all the configuration changes needed (unless there are 
> volunteers).

Would a make in src call the Makefile in the mac directory?

        Jan D.