Location of beam files should be configurable at run time

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Hi, this is a forward of <http://bugs.gentoo.org/259695>.

I've just packaged distel-4.03 for Gentoo Linux. Our policy is to install
Emacs Lisp files under /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/<package>/ (which is
easily possible by setting ELISP_DIR for "make install").

The problem is however that the location of the beam files is hardcoded, so
this does not work without patching the elisp sources. It would be nice if
that location was configurable. A patch is attached.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. make base info
2. make prefix=/usr ELISP_DIR=/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/distel install

What is the expected output?
Location of beam files should be configurable
What do you see instead?
Location is hardcoded as ../ebin

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
distel-4.03 on Gentoo Linux

Original issue reported on code.google.com by u...@gentoo.org on 20 Feb 2009 at 10:28

Attachments:

• distel-4.03-fix-ebin-path.patch

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Original comment by mats.cro...@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2009 at 2:37

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Component-Scripts

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applied (slightly modified) patch from Gentoo maintainer.

Original comment by mats.cro...@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2009 at 3:35

• Changed state: Fixed