Re: Tramp installation on Fedora Core 3: Small hiccup

[Michael Albinus]

Bradley Dilger <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello everyone,

Hi,

> I did notice one slightly strange thing during the install process; I'm 
> unsure if it's a Fedora oddity, or a bug in Tramp's installation. The 
> third line of the output of 'make install' ended up being:
>
>      mkdir -p /usr/share/share/emacs/site-lisp

>From lisp/Makefile:

prefix          = /usr/local
datadir         = ${prefix}/share
lispdir         = $(datadir)/emacs/site-lisp

[...]

install: all
        $(MKDIR) $(lispdir)
        $(INSTALL) $(INSTALL_FILES) $(lispdir)

> Seems like an extra 'share' got in there somehow, and the tramp files 
> ended up in a newly created directory.

[...]

> I compiled the software with:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/share --with-contrib
> make
> make install           # as root

Hmm. "--prefix=/usr" seems to be the better choice. I'll update the
documentation.

> best,
> cbd.

Thanx for reporting, and best regards, Michael.