Re: removing old installations

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.06.2011 um 19:34 schrieb Eric Abrahamsen:

> Given that no other "emacs" executables are on my system (at least, to
> the best of my knowledge, and I spent a while rooting them out), what
> other leftover files could be confusing my present installation?


With locate (or find) you can find all instances of "emacs" and also  
"emacs-23.2" and "emacs-24.0.50" and remove them. The same for the  
version sub-directories "23.2" and "24.0.50" in /usr/local/libexec/ 
emacs and /usr/local/share/emacs.

You can launch that "emacs" binary in your PATH and choose from the  
Help menu "Send Bug Report…" or type M-x report-emacs-bug RET. In the  
*unsent mail to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org* buffer you'll find a text  
describing where and how this "emacs" was built.

Finally you can use the trace utilities to see which files and  
directories these "emacs" executable files open.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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None.
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