Re: emacs-w3m?

[David De La Harpe Golden]

Robert J. Chassell wrote:
>     >     How did the directory `share' get created in the trunk working tree?
>     > 
>     > I have no idea.  That is part of the problem.
>
>     Does its creation date and time give you any clues?
>
> No.  I wish they did.  I know is that I used W3M mode to view
> BzrForEmacsDevs and BzrQuickStartForEmacsDevs, but that's all.
> W3M mode was in Emacs.  It is very strange.  `share' should not
> be part of trunk at all, not the master or a branch.


FWIW: did you ever happen to try the --with-emacs option to emacs-w3m's 
configure script?  In my testing just now, I found that if I passed
a path to an emacs binary still in the source tree rather than an 
installed emacs, e.g.

./configure --with-emacs=/usr/local/src/emacs/src/emacs

it'll detect and use the emacs source tree as the prefix.

, not /usr/local  - and install to 
/usr/local/src/emacs/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3m/

Obviously, if you were to explicitly do
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/src/emacs/
it'll end up there too, but the --with-emacs behaviour
is a little sneakier -  if you, say, thought you could use --with-emacs 
to use a freshly built but not yet installed emacs to build emacs-w3m, 
and it would still install to the default /usr/local/ prefix, well, it 
doesn't.