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From: Damon Lipparelli <lipp@primus.com>
To: SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org>
Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: Minsk: Success under Solaris 2.5.1
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Reply-To: Damon Lipparelli <lipp@primus.com>
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>>>>> SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

    > We might as well have this out now ...  Damon Lipparelli
    >
    > <lipp@primus.com> writes: ...
    >>
    >> Recently (in the last few betas), I noticed that with an "exec
    >> directory" different than the install directory causes this "extreme
    >> bogosity" when doing a "make install":

    > I put that code in to handle the case of separating the exec
    > directory (without it installation succeeds but the resulting binary
    > was unrunable).  Calling it ``extreme bogosity'' was Martin's
    > compromise to leave it in at all.

    > (You have tested this, I assume.  The installation directory finding
    > code in XEmacs, for all its boasting, is quite stupid).

Yep.  I do this for every beta.  It allows me to not only share the common
bits between different architectures, but also between different builds of
the same architecture.  For example, I almost always build a debug and
non-debug version of every beta.  They can share everything but the
executable stuff....

-lipp

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