Application support area in Mac OS X

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

Apple has released some rules about the layout of the Mac OS X file 
system. One such item is a directory with application support files. 
Those can be plug-ins or newer versions of components or whatever. And 
there always two of them: one system-wide and one user-specific. They 
are:

/Library/Application Support/Emacs
~/Library/Application Support/Emacs

I use the first one for updates of RefTeX, AUCTeX, preview-latex and 
too some other, extra Elisp files, for example to define fonts and 
fontsets. The problem is that it's either useless or pretty hard to 
edit emacs/src/epaths.h. My way is to configure the X11 version, then 
edit epaths.h, then invoke make. For the Carbon version I 'patched' 
make-package adding

+ ### Pete
+ #(cd ${srcdir}/src; mv epaths.h epaths.h-orig; cat epaths.h-orig | 
sed -e 's,^\(#define PATH_LOADSEARCH "\),\1/Library/Application 
Support/Emacs/calendar:/Library/Application 
Support/Emacs/preview:/Library/Application 
Support/Emacs/auctex/images:/Library/Application 
Support/Emacs/auctex:/Library/Application 
Support/Emacs/reftex:/Library/Application Support/Emacs:,' > epaths.h)
+ (cd ${builddir}/src; mv epaths.h epaths.h-orig; cat epaths.h-orig | 
sed -e 's,^\(#define PATH_LOADSEARCH "\),\1/Library/Application 
Support/Emacs/calendar:/Library/Application 
Support/Emacs/preview:/Library/Application 
Support/Emacs/auctex/images:/Library/Application 
Support/Emacs/auctex:/Library/Application 
Support/Emacs/reftex:/Library/Application Support/Emacs:,' > epaths.h)
+


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.8.0, GTK+ Version 2.4.9)
 of 2005-03-16 on Latsche.local
Distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40300000
configured using `configure '--without-carbon' '--with-x' 
'--without-pop' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-png' 
'--with-gif' '--with-gtk' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'CFLAGS=-O3 -pipe 
-faltivec -maltivec -no-cpp-precomp -fomit-frame-pointer 
-foptimize-register-move -fcprop-registers -frename-registers 
-freorder-blocks -fpeephole -fast  -mtune=G4 -mcpu=G4 -fPIC' 
'CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include' 'LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Shell

Minor modes in effect:
  auto-compression-mode: t
  mouse-sel-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  TeX-PDF-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-decoding-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

--
Greetings

  Pete