Re: removing old installations

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 25.06.2011 19:34, schrieb Eric Abrahamsen:
> I'm running the Ubuntu repository version of emacs (23.2.1) on Natty. In
> the past I've tried compiling both emacs 24 and emacs 23 myself on this
> machine, before deciding it was unnecessary and just using the
> repository version. As near as I can tell I've cleared the old 24 and 23
> installations out of my system, but leftover files are still interfering
> with byte compilation in my present system.
>
> Makefiles in external packages like gnus or org-mode set the executable
> to "emacs" (ie, no full path). There are no other "emacs" executables on
> my path, but still I need to change the makefiles to specify
> "/usr/bin/emacs", or else I pick up weird bits from emacs 24, and my
> compiled files behave strangely (I can provide more details).


Hi,

that would be of interest for me, just to understand how Emacs behaves.


 Even with
> the full path to emacs specified, I get these warnings with each byte
> compilation:
>
> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp' does not exist.
> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' does not exist.

Given the issue above wouldn't exist --which seems a more serious one--
that warning alone would tell me:

when Emacs was build these directories existed, now they are gone.
Then it should be OK providing empty directories to get rid of the 
warning. (?)

Andreas



> All my site-lisp directories are under /usr/share/emacs or
> /usr/share/emacs23, and I don't know what configuration or startup files
> are telling it to look under /usr/local/share.
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks!
> Eric