Re: [VM] Announcement: 8.2.0a (alpha testing) release

[rlk]

Uday S Reddy writes:
 > address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > > I downloaded vm-8.2.0a.tgz and untarred it without issue, but the directory
 > > vm-8.2.0a and everything in it were owned by 1004:513.  After fixing that I
 > > discovered that the configure file could not be executed.  I solved that by
 > > using "sh ~/configure".  
 > 
 > I have no idea why any of these should happen.  I just downloaded it and did
 > a build on a CentOS machine, and it didn't run into any of these problems.
 > I can't do `make install' to system directories on this departmental
 > machine.  But using my home directory as the `--prefix' option, everything
 > got installed fine.  I am attaching the output from `make install' below.  
 > 
 > . . . 
 > 
 > Note that you don't need to do `make install' to use VM.  The INSTALL file
 > gives you instructions on how to use it directly from the directory where
 > you build VM.

True but I took your note seriously;

2. The installation scripts have been changed to install files in
correct locations on Unix systems, and to install the doc files
(NEWS etc), which had been missing earlier.  I need you to run `make
install' and test whether it works correctly on your systems.

In addition as always on this shared system I wanted VM installed in
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/vm/ and usable, including the doc files, by
everyone on the system.  That did indeed work once the ownership was fixed.

But then VM itself was unusable.

Note that this report was just noting that the installation process which has
worked for many years in the past no longer works, and to offer a few details.
I've not the time to see if any of the suggestions work (especially as they
don't have anything to do with what appears to be my bad configuration of the
new VM) but if they do it would be good to add them to the INSTALL file.

-- Bob

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Robert L. Knighten
address@hidden