Re: EMACSLOADPATH in lisp/Makefile.in

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 3 Dec 2000, Ken Raeburn wrote:

> >     cd lisp
> >     make recompile EMACS=../bin/emacs
> > 
> > (This is the MS-DOS port, where "make install" installs the Emacs
> > executable in the bin/ subdirectory of the Emacs source tree.)
> 
> So you're installing before running "make recompile"

Yes; but that's not important in this case.  I could say
"EMACS=../src/emacs" and get the same results.

(The MS-DOS version installs the binary in-place, so the Lisp files
are not copied.  Therefore, whether I do this before or after "make
install" is not important.  The fact that I usually install first is
because I'm used to say "make install" instead of just "make".)

> Using
> 
>         EMACSLOADPATH=`cd $(lisp)&&pwd`
> 
> seems to work for me, by providing an absolute pathname.  Would it
> work for you?

It works for "make recompile", yes.  But I think we should make sure
it also works for other targets where you want to replace $(EMACS)
with $(emacs).  (Do you really need to set EMACSLOADPATH for all of
those targets?)