[PATCH] Separate Emacs miscellaneous files directory from Emacs code directory.

[Thomas Jost]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:13:11 -0300, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:34:58 +0200, Amadeusz Żołnowski <aidecoe at aidecoe.name> wrote:
> > --emacsetcdir was added, but it's set default to the same value as
> > --emacslispdir for backward compatibility.
> > ---
> 
> At a quick search, I couldn't find any reference to --emacsetcdir
> outside Gentoo. I'd like to hear what other people think about this one.

I had never heard of that, but apparently there's a
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.90/etc on my system which contains images, READMEs
and other misc files. It's also described in the "data-directory"
variable in Emacs:

    data-directory is a variable defined in `C source code'.
    Its value is "/usr/share/emacs/24.0.90/etc/"

    Documentation:
    Directory of machine-independent files that come with GNU Emacs.
    These are files intended for Emacs to use while it runs.

So I guess it can't hurt to add this.

However there is something annoying in the commit:

+# The directory to which emacs lisp files should be installed
+emacsetcdir=${EMACSETCDIR}

$EMACSETCDIR is not for emacs lisp files (that's what $EMACSLISPDIR is
for), so this line needs be fixed.

Regards

-- 
Thomas/Schnouki
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