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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 17 Jun 1997 17:39:35 +0200
In-Reply-To: Vinnie Shelton's message of Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:36:54 -0400
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Vinnie Shelton  <shelton@icd.teradyne.com> writes:

> It's completely bass-ackward to have an option to *disable* checking
> in /usr/local; we already have an option to *enable* such a thing,
> we just need to have the configurers use it and to disable the
> current behavior.  In other words, let's take out the automatic
> checking of /usr/local, and instruct builders to use
> --site-includes=/usr/local/include and
> --site-runtime-libraries=/usr/local/lib.

I think that's complicating matters.  I like the features as they are
now.

In fact, I think we should do all we can to make building of source
releases *easier* instead of harder.  If at all possible, the sequence 
consisting of:

./configure && make install

should produce a good XEmacs.  The reason for this is that if we (for
any imaginable reason) give up binary releases people are grown used
to, we'd better have the configure+make process topnotch.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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Oh lord won't you buy me a color TV...

