Re: Directory structure changes in Emacs installed on MS-Windows

[chad]

On 04 Apr 2013, at 23:06, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> It would be important if it were true, but I don't think it's true.
> The way epaths.h is generated from epaths.in on Posix platforms leaves
> the root of the Emacs installation tree (specified via --prefix)
> hard-coded into the binary, and Emacs (AFAIK) currently doesn't
> support relocation of the installation tree on Posix systems.  By
> contrast, on Windows relocation is a matter of routine.  So I cannot
> use the epaths-force target of the top-level Makefile anyway.

I don't know if this is helpful to you or not, but the ns port
(--with-ns) features a relocatable tree.  It seems to be implemented
in src/nsterm.m, functions ns_etc_directory(), ns_exec_path(), and
ns_load_path().

~Chad