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From: rwells@PROPHET.BBN.COM
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: the latest gnuemacs on vaxes
Message-ID: <8701131905.AA10024@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Tue, 13-Jan-87 13:15:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 13 13:15:55 1987
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If you are going to put a standard version of gnu-emacs up on most of
the machines, it would also be nice to get the support library for it
into a standard place - /u2/ucs/emacs/lisp is neither obvious nor is
it clear that /u2 is the right place on all systems.  Something like
/usr/local/nosupport/lib/gnuemacs.17.71/lisp  would be better.  Note
that in general each version of the executable should use its own set
of library support corresponding to that version.

On bbn-prophet the executable is

	/usr/thishost/bin/emacs-17.61.11 linked to /usr/thishost/bin/xemacs

and the corresponding support library (with path built into the executable) is

	/usr/thishost/lib/gnuemacs.17.61, with etc and lisp subdirectories.

This version of emacs also has compiled into it the path for the lock
file directory, which is

	/usr/thishost/lib/gnuemacs/lock

The reasoning here is that all versions of gnuemacs should share the
same lock directory.

This scheme was ported with minimal difficulty and no recompilation or
path changes to bbn-spca; /usr/thishost/src/gnuemacs.17.61 was not copied,
so only ~2.5MB rather than ~12MB were taken up on bbn-spca.  -Robert