[21.5] Use .../share instead of .../lib for datadir

Michael Sperber sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Wed Aug 29 08:15:32 EDT 2007


Didier Verna <didier at xemacs.org> writes:

> Michael Sperber <sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>
>> This changes the directory layout to use the share subdirectory for
>> architecture-independent files. This is necessary to remove the
>> horrible kludge that would prevent anything *but* .../share to be used
>> for datadir, and generally brings us closer to widely used filesystem
>> layouts.
>
>   Hello Mike,
>
> I've recompile 21.5 today, and I have noticed that XEmacs is not capable
> of finding the packages anymore when run from its compilation place,
> without installation (that's what I usually do). A properly "make
> install"'ed XEmacs finds them correctly however.

What's the output of running with -debug-paths?  What's the directory layout?

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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