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changeset 21691:2a33987c0f02
Explain trouble with link farms in `make install'.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 21 Apr 1998 06:13:36 +0000 |
| parents | e8a5797c2808 |
| children | 303a96060ff1 |
| files | INSTALL |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/INSTALL Tue Apr 21 05:22:19 1998 +0000 +++ b/INSTALL Tue Apr 21 06:13:36 1998 +0000 @@ -173,6 +173,15 @@ To build in a separate directory, you must use a version of `make' that supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. +3c) Some people try to build in a separate directory +by filling it full of symlinks to the real source directory. +If you do that, `make all' does work, but `make install' fails: +it copies the symbolic links rather than the actual files. + +As far as is known, there is no particular reason to use +a directory full of links rather than use the standard GNU +facilities to build in a separate directory (see 3b above). + 4) Look at `./lisp/paths.el'; if some of those values are not right for your system, set up the file `./lisp/site-init.el' with Emacs Lisp code to override them; it is not a good idea to edit paths.el