1 * How do I get my
(uninstalled) Xemacs to see
(uninstalled) packages?
3 From
: Didier Verna
<didier
@xemacs.org
>
4 To
: Alan Mackenzie
<acm
@muc.de
>
5 Subject
: Re
: How do I get my
(uninstalled) Xemacs to see
(uninstalled)
6 Date
: Wed
, 24 Mar
2010 10:16:14 +0100
8 Alan Mackenzie
<acm
@muc.de
> wrote
:
10 > How do I tell this XEmacs where to look to find packages? Which
11 > variable must I set
, and is there anything more to do? I
've tried
, but
12 > failed
, to find this info in the XEmacs and Lispref manuals. Is it
13 > there
, and if so
, where?
15 This is not exactly the answer you
're expecting
, but I prefer to do it
18 - I do install the packages
, but only perform a symlink installation
, so
19 nothing is really duplicated
,
20 - this also has the advantage that you can remove the symlinks you don
't
21 want
(for instance if you have conflicting versions in site-packages
)
22 without affecting your copy of the repo.
24 From
: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen
@xemacs.org
>
25 To
: Alan Mackenzie
<acm
@muc.de
>
26 Subject
: How do I get my
(uninstalled) Xemacs to see
(uninstalled) packages?
27 Date
: Wed
, 24 Mar
2010 20:20:03 +0900
31 Documentation is in the node
"(xemacs)Startup Paths".
33 Date
: Thu
, 25 Mar
2010 13:31:54 -
0400
34 Subject
: Re
: How do I get my
(uninstalled) Xemacs to see
(uninstalled)
35 From
: Vin Shelton
<acs
@alumni.princeton.edu
>
36 To
: Alan Mackenzie
<acm
@muc.de
>
42 >> Does setting the environment variable
44 >> EMACSLATEPACKAGES
=3D~
/emacs
/packages
46 >> before starting XEmacs help? Reading the lispref manual Package
47 >> Overview
/The User View seems to indicate that it might do what you
50 > No
, it doesn
't help at all. There surely must be some internal variabl
=
52 > which reflect all these external attempts to connect with a packages
53 > directory. Would somebody please tell me what they are.
55 After poking around for awhile and conducting some experiments
, I
56 don
't think XEmacs supports running the packages directly from the CVS
57 hierarchy. You will have to create the forest of symlinks that Didier
60 cd ~
/emacs
/packages
/xemacs-packages
66 Repeat the final
2 steps as necessary. If you set
70 in Local.rules
, this may happen automatically. I do not fully grok
73 Mike Sperber - please correct me where I have published incorrect informati
=
79 Date
: Thu
, 25 Mar
2010 15:32:06 -
0500
80 Subject
: Re
: How do I get my
(uninstalled) Xemacs to see
(uninstalled)
81 From
: Ben Wing
<ben
@666.com
>
82 To
: Vin Shelton
<acs
@alumni.princeton.edu
>
86 I think Vin is right. Alan
, why don
't you just modify
87 XEMACS_INSTALLED_PACKAGES_ROOT in Local.rules to some location or
88 other
, then do
`make install
' from the packages directory. Then FAQ
89 question
2.1.1 should tell you how to configure XEmacs to find them.
92 Date
: Thu
, 25 Mar
2010 20:35:26 +0000
93 To
: Vin Shelton
<acs
@alumni.princeton.edu
>
94 Subject
: Re
: How do I get my
(uninstalled) Xemacs to see
(uninstalled)
95 From
: Alan Mackenzie
<acm
@muc.de
>
99 On Thu
, Mar
25, 2010 at
01:31:54PM -
0400, Vin Shelton wrote
:
101 > After poking around for awhile and conducting some experiments
, I don
't
102 > think XEmacs supports running the packages directly from the CVS
103 > hierarchy. You will have to create the forest of symlinks that Didier
106 > cd ~
/emacs
/packages
/xemacs-packages
112 > Repeat the final
2 steps as necessary.
115 $ for f in ..
/* ; do ln -s $f ${f##*/} ; done
116 did the job nicely.
:-
)
118 And my XEmacs now starts up with its packages.
:-
) Thank you indeed
!
124 > in Local.rules
, this may happen automatically. I do not fully grok
127 I think I
've got that set in my Local.rules
, but because of the
((natnump
128 -
1)) problem
, I couldn
't get that far.
130 > Mike Sperber - please correct me where I have published incorrect information.
135 Alan Mackenzie
(Nuremberg, Germany
).
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