From a280df4cab8e492123ded9e236c671b275183d53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 15:57:36 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] ; Mention in NEWS the need to use --bindir * etc/NEWS: Mention the need to use --bindir= at configure time when installing outside of the ${prefix} tree. (Bug#46790) --- etc/NEWS | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 770c96b07ba..962cfe58d10 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -18,6 +18,24 @@ with a prefix argument or by typing 'C-u C-h C-n'. * Installation Changes in Emacs 28.2 +** To install the Emacs binary in a non-standard directory, use '--bindir='. +If you install Emacs in a way that places the Emacs executable file in +a directory other than ${prefix}/bin, you will now need to specify +that at configure time, if you build Emacs with native-compilation +support. To this end, add the '--bindir=DIRECTORY' switch to the +command line of the 'configure' script, where DIRECTORY is the +directory in which you will install the executable file 'emacs'. This +is required even if you place a symlink under ${prefix}/bin that +points to the real executable file in some other DIRECTORY. + +It is no longer enough to specify 'bindir=DIRECTORY' on the command +line of the "make install" command. + +The reason for this new requirement is that Emacs needs to locate at +startup the directory with its '*.eln' natively-compiled files for the +preloaded Lisp packages, and the relative name of that directory needs +therefore to be recorded in the executable as part of the build. + * Startup Changes in Emacs 28.2