Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/25/09:37:02
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Thomas Demmer wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > So what's your problem to download the Emacs sources and build it on the
> > Unix box? It is usually quite easy.
>
> Because they have diskquotas
He didn't say that the disk space is the problem.
> emacs wants to have files under /usr/local, where most users don't have
> write access for obvoius reasons.
This is easily changed using the --prefix argument to ./configure
script. I have built Emacs this way on machines where sysadmins didn't
want to install it in a public directory.
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