<html lang="en"> <head> <title>GNU Emacs - Stow</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Stow"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Compile_002dtime-vs-Install_002dtime.html#Compile_002dtime-vs-Install_002dtime" title="Compile-time vs Install-time"> <link rel="prev" href="Compile_002dtime-vs-Install_002dtime.html#Compile_002dtime-vs-Install_002dtime" title="Compile-time vs Install-time"> <link rel="next" href="Other-FSF-Software.html#Other-FSF-Software" title="Other FSF Software"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This manual describes GNU Stow version 2.2.2 (9 November 2015), a program for managing the installation of software packages. Software and documentation is copyrighted by the following: (C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Bob Glickstein <bobg+stow@zanshin.com> (C) 2000, 2001 Guillaume Morin <gmorin@gnu.org> (C) 2007 Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson <kahlil@internode.on.net> (C) 2011 Adam Spiers <stow@adamspiers.org> Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also that the section entitled ``GNU General Public License'' is included with the modified manual, and provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation. --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="GNU-Emacs"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Other-FSF-Software.html#Other-FSF-Software">Other FSF Software</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Compile_002dtime-vs-Install_002dtime.html#Compile_002dtime-vs-Install_002dtime">Compile-time vs Install-time</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Compile_002dtime-vs-Install_002dtime.html#Compile_002dtime-vs-Install_002dtime">Compile-time vs Install-time</a> <hr> </div> <h3 class="section">12.2 GNU Emacs</h3> <p>Although the Free Software Foundation has many enlightened practices regarding Makefiles and software installation (see see <a href="Other-FSF-Software.html#Other-FSF-Software">Other FSF Software</a>), Emacs, its flagship program, doesn't quite follow the rules. In particular, most GNU software allows you to write: <pre class="example"> make make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/<var>package</var> </pre> <p class="noindent">If you try this with Emacs, then the new value for <var>prefix</var> in the ‘<samp><span class="samp">make install</span></samp>’ step will cause some files to get recompiled with the new value of <var>prefix</var> wired into them. In Emacs 19.23 and later,<a rel="footnote" href="#fn-1" name="fnd-1"><sup>1</sup></a> the way to work around this problem is: <pre class="example"> make make install-arch-dep install-arch-indep prefix=/usr/local/stow/emacs </pre> <p>In 19.22 and some prior versions of Emacs, the workaround was: <pre class="example"> make make do-install prefix=/usr/local/stow/emacs </pre> <!-- --> <div class="footnote"> <hr> <h4>Footnotes</h4><p class="footnote"><small>[<a name="fn-1" href="#fnd-1">1</a>]</small> As I write this, the current version of Emacs is 19.31.</p> <hr></div> </body></html>