Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Anybody out there?

[Jan-Åke Larsson]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Jan-Åke Larsson <address@hidden> writes:
> > On my debian can it still wants to install into
> > ${datadir}/emacs/21.4/site-lisp (with ${prefix}=/usr/local)
> > That version-specific directory is not really wanted.
>
> How comes?  The test is
>
>        EMACS_EXAMINE_INSTALLATION_DIR(lispdir,
>          [['${datadir}/emacs' '${libdir}/emacs' "${emacsprefix}/share/emacs" \
>            '${datadir}' '${libdir}' "${emacsprefix}"]],
>          [[(list \"emacs/site-lisp\" \"emacs/site-packages\"
>                  \"site-lisp\" \"site-packages\")]], load-path)
>
> And this clearly favors ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp over
> ${datadir}/emacs/21.4/site-lisp.

I finally tracked this down. It seems that I have a 
/usr/local/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp on disk, but not 
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp

If I set --prefix=/usr I get the non-version-specific variant, because 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp exists.

/JÅ