From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: gettext pretest available
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:00:55 +0100
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> Also, I don't understand the ``outdated'' part.  The binary on SimTel
> is based on the latest official release of Emacs.
My mistake - I should have checked. I thought there had been no release
of 20.7

> I don't plan to change the Emacs installation tree.  The DJGPP port is
> set up to build and install in-place.  If you move it, you will have
> to set all kinds of environment variables to let Emacs find its files,
> or hack the epaths.h header to have the relevant directories
> hard-wired there, in which case they will not work on someone else's
> machine.
Odd - I built emacs 20.7 from the regular configure, with
prefix=/dev/env/DJDIR.  This worked fine; and I've now moved my DJGPP
tree to a different drive and emacs still works fine.  One thing I have
yet to fix is that emacs tends to turn /dev/* into <curdrive>:/dev/*; but
that is pretty harmless.  I did some other tweaking here and there (too
long ago to remember), but IIRC there was no major work involved.
Given that emacs can find its files just fine if put in $DJDIR/bin and
$DJDIR/share/emacs, I didn't see a real reason to banish it to
$DJDIR/gnu/emacs, except perhaps that building in-place does not require
having enough space for two lisp trees; then again, there is no reason
why you should keep the source tree around after a 'make install'.

> What's wrong with %DJDIR%/gnu/emacs/, anyway?  Are there any real
> reasons for changing the current defaults?
There's nothing _wrong_ with it, except that it adds yet another
directory to the path.  Plus, every other DJGPP package puts its binaries
in $DJDIR/bin (I think - didn't check all packages to see if that's true).
But since that is the current default, I guess we're stuck with it.