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Re: `make install' on Mac OS X silently corrupts existing /Applications/
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William Xu |
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Re: `make install' on Mac OS X silently corrupts existing /Applications/Emacs.app |
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Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:54:29 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (darwin) |
Gregory Nathan Price <price@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Of course moving /Applications/Emacs.app out of the way is all it took
> to make a clean install. But Emacs' `make install' should notice an
> existing installation, and stop short rather than (a) destroy the
> existing installation and (b) produce a part-working chimera.
I think `make install' overwrites existing old installations is the
normal behaviour. Think of this, one do `cvs up' at times, and to
reinstall, simply `make install' will just be fine.
Also, in `src' sudir, you can find something like emacs-23.0.50.1,
emacs-23.0.50.2, etc, representing the executables built at different
time.
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William
http://williamxu.net9.org