Re: Cocoa Emacs

[Adrian Robert]

On Aug 22, 2008, at 5:06 AM, Nick Roberts wrote:

> Adrian Robert writes:
> > > ... Emacs expects to find the DOC
> > ...
> >
> > "make install"
>
> OK, thanks.  I did briefly consider (but not try) this but assumed  
> that, by
> default, "install" would put Emacs somewhere common like / 
> Applications, not in
> a directory in my personal workspace.

Some message text is output at the end of "configure" detailing what  
will happen.

It would make sense to have "install" should behave as you suggest,  
however it's also nice to be able to test a newly built Emacs.app  
"nondestructively", and the only way to get everything assembled so  
this will work is to use make procedures under the "install" target to  
do the packaging.

A way to get the best of both worlds would be to add an ns-appdir  
configure option which defaults to ./nextstep but could be set to,  
e.g., /Applications.  Such an option was there before, but I took it  
out during the process of simplifying the build and getting rid of the  
extra compile script we used to have.  Perhaps now would be a good  
time to add it back in though.

(Note, if you pass --disable-ns-self-contained, the lisp and other  
files will be installed in a common location, but the app still goes  
under nextstep/.)