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bug#19850: 25.0.50; [PATCH] configure.ac: Fix site-lisp paths with NS se
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Jan D. |
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bug#19850: 25.0.50; [PATCH] configure.ac: Fix site-lisp paths with NS self-contained apps. |
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Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:41:10 +0100 |
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David Caldwell skrev den 2015-02-13 08:28:
On 2/12/15 10:57 PM, Jan D. wrote:
Hi.
If we keep site-lis as it is, we can have several Emacs versions installed,
with different site-lisp:s.
Also, changing files in site-lisp does not require root priviliges.
If we keep things as they are now, the site lisp file points to a random
directory that doesn't exist! Take a look again:
"/Users/build/workspace/Emacs-Multi-Build/label/mavericks/emacs-source/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp"
Oh, its the compile time place, not the run time. That looks like a bug.
This Emacs was built on a different machine than the one it's running
on. My machine has no "build" user and therefore no "/Users/build"
directory.
I certainly cannot create that directory without being root.
Your change breaks both those feaures.
No, it actually doesn't. First off, it only affects self contained
nextstep builds, which (as I described above) are currently totally busted.
Secondly, it doesn't preclude different site lisps for different
Emacsen. Here's the epaths.h line generated with my patch:
#define PATH_SITELOADSEARCH
"/Library/emacs/25.0.50/site-lisp:/Library/emacs/site-lisp"
That still ends up with the version in the site lisp path, so there can
multiple site lisps.
Yes, the site lisp path is in /Library which is root:wheel, but that is
the correct place to put site wide things on the Mac.
No its not, its /Library/Application Support/Emacs.
If you want
non-site wide lisps, you can always edit your .emacs with no root
privileges. Thinking about it, I'm not sure why non-root is a good idea
for site wide stuff in the first place: On a multi-user system, it seems
like a security problem for one user to affect all the other user's
site-lisp. That *should* require root (like it does on linux).
That's not the point. The point is that the Emacs I compile for myself
should by default ignore site wide stuff in global places. It should
require a choice to use it. On Linux-distributions site lisp always
looks like a garbage heap full of bad ideas dumped there by who-nows.
And that's when installing a fresh distribution.
I don't think this is a good idea.
Please reconsider. This really seems like the correct fix to me.
This is not the correct fix. But we might add something for those that
want a global site-lisp. I'll think about it.
Jan D.